Boredom Quotes - Page 27

• Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Air, Numbers, People

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• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

  Cyril Connolly

  Motivational, Disappointment, Loss

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Too Much, Enough

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• Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Artist, Evil

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Endurance, World

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

  Sarah Dunant

  Frustration, Devil, May

  Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House

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• boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

  Muriel Barbery

  Born, Uniformity

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• Boredom is desire seeking desire.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Desire, Seeking

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• I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

  Francisco Costa

  Office, Tolerance, Hours

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• Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

  Paul Valery

  Real, People, Mind

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• Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Ennui, Sufferers

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• I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

  Walton Goggins

  Thinking, Sometimes, Stereotype

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  News, Towns, Speed

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• The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

  Yann Martel

  Swings, Opposites, Pairs

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.240, Vintage Canada

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• Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Memories, Sanctuary, Mediocrity

  "Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard". Tagline, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2006.

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• Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

  Mason Cooley

  Work, Worry, Harder

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• A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

  Mason Cooley

  Cures

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• Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

  Voltaire

  Men, Misery, Born

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• Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

  Mason Cooley

  Strive, Strife, Stuck

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• Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

  Mason Cooley

  Faith, Bores

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• A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

  Mason Cooley

  Contradiction

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• Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

  Mason Cooley

  Sleepy, Restless

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Letting Go, Wedding, Guests

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• One eventually has enough even of oneself.

  Mason Cooley

  Enough, Oneself

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