Bores You Quotes

• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Boredom, Solitude, Novelists

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• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Listening To Others, Effective Listening, Boredom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Boredom, Bored

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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, Evil, Boredom

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

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

  Dylan Moran

  Trying Different Things, Boredom, Insanity

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

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Boredom, Asks

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, People

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

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Boredom, Done, Laziness

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Boredom, Bored

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bored, Trying

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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, Useless Things, Boredom

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

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Dragons, Boredom

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Ideas, Differences

  "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.

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• To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

  Heraclitus

  Work, Boredom, Controlled

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Sick, Boredom

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

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• The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

  Georges Bernanos

  Dust, Hands, Boredom

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.2, Da Capo Press

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Boredom

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Boredom, Would Be

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Boredom

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Boredom

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