Dying Of Boredom Quotes

• My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Husband, Boredom

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

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• Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

  Arthur Helps

  Dying Slowly, Boredom, Faculty

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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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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• Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Blessing, Guarantees That, Boredom

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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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, Boredom

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• As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Feet, Boredom

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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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• I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Boredom, Dying

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• Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Thinking, Doors, Boredom

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, America, People

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