Boredom Quotes - Page 32

• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Should Have, Tree

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, Thinking, Chinese

  José Napoleón Oropeza, Diane Arbus (1986). “El bosque de los elegidos: escrito en homenaje a Diane Arbus”

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• I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

  Peggy Noonan

  Sailing, Apathy, Sides

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

  John Jay Chapman

  Done, Leaving Me

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• There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Challenges

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

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• The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fear, Law, Atheism

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

  Noel Coward

  Writing, Speed, High Speed

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• Boredom makes you do crazy things

  Jenny Holzer

  Crazy, Crazy Things

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Expression, Profound, Soul

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• The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

  Desson Thomson

  Theater, Projectors

  "Adam Sandler, breeding 'Anger'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• A dull ax never loves grindstones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, Grindstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

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• The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

  Stendhal

  Married, Inevitable, Married Life

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

  African Spir

  Feelings, Needs, Mirages

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• The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

  Alia Shawkat

  Children, Growing Up, Suburbs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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• Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Anxiety, Doe

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.157, Bantam

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• I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Golf, Gun, Hunting

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• Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

  Anne Morice

  Hands, Curious, Chemical Reactions

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• I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

  Erin Wasson

  Height, Speed, Phobia

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• Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Trying, Resources

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• I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Lazy, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.

  Zlata Filipović

  Sweet, Children, Fun

  Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult

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