Boredom Quotes - Page 7

• Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Bores You, Sick

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for May 1776)

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• Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Sap, Superficial

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• You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Painting, Knows

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• My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

  Julien Torma

  Fun, Discovery, Has Beens

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• Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

  Yuja Wang

  Music, Dark, Blood

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• No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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• Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sad, Depression, Bored

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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  Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Blessing, Wings

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Deep Thought, Mouths

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• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

  William Gaddis

  Book, Blessing, Dying

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• Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Blessing, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Blessing, Safe, Symptoms

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• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

  Mary Renault

  Blessing, Missing, Intellectual

  Mary Renault (2014). “North Face: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Passion goes, Boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Passion, Remains

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Roots, Bores You, Evil

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

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• And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Mean, Stuff, Way

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• People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

  Jeremy Collier

  Tired, People, Company

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Paralysis, Productive

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Bores You, Dragons

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• A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

  Stephanie Mills

  Needs, Delight, Way

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.122, Island Press

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• Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

  Larry Niven

  Blessing, Worst Enemy, Risk

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Bores You, Principles

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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