Funny Boredom Quotes - Page 2

• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bores You, People, Boredom

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

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• The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Blessing, Boredom

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.164, Random House

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• Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

  Saul Bellow

  Blessing, Boredom, Conviction

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Boredom, Faces

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.100, Verso

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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