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• I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Reality, Staring

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• Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

  Jean Giono

  Horrible

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• Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

  Vivian Gornick

  Anxiety, Papa, Causes

  Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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• boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

  Rona Jaffe

  People, Faces, Tendencies

  Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Despair, Hacking

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• The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Mistake, Opportunity

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Effort

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• People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Years, Long, People

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Selfish, Bitterness, Tranquility

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

  Mario Andretti

  Fall, Race, Combat

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Lakes, Keys, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Enlightened, Bores

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• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Dull, Golden

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

  Laurence Olivier

  Kindness, Comfort, Yoke

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• Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Mother, Father

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• Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Life, Brain, Spy

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Today, Tomorrow, Console

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• Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Trying

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Numbness, Soul, Emptiness

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Want, Ends

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• Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

  Novalis

  Book, Causes, Infinite

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.42, SUNY Press

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• The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Hair, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.236

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• Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fun, Spring, War

  "Fictional character: Scarlett". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

  Stephen Daldry

  Opportunity, Awards, Smoking

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• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Skills, Ideas

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