Quotes about bores and boredom

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on bores and boredom
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"I have a fear of being boring."

Bale, Christian on bores and boredom   

"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Baudelaire, Charles on bores and boredom   

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

Baudrillard, Jean on bores and boredom
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"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on bores and boredom   

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."

Benjamin, Walter on bores and boredom   

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

Berger, John on bores and boredom
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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. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go."

Bernanos, Georges on bores and boredom   

"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored."

Berryman, John on bores and boredom   

"Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen."

Bierce, Ambrose on bores and boredom
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"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."

Bloomfield, Lady on bores and boredom   

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

Brenan, Gerald on bores and boredom   

"One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring."

Bush, Barbara on bores and boredom   

"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"

Bush, George on bores and boredom   

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

Butler, Samuel on bores and boredom   

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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."

Carnegie, Dale on bores and boredom
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"A yawn is a silent shout."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on bores and boredom
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"People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."

Collier, Jeremy on bores and boredom   

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Debord, Guy on bores and boredom   

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday."

Deeping, Warwick on bores and boredom   

"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."

Dickens, Charles on bores and boredom   

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on bores and boredom   

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on bores and boredom
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"Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored."

Dyer, Wayne on bores and boredom
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"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way."

Dyer, Wayne on bores and boredom   

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

Ford, Henry on bores and boredom
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"There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on bores and boredom   

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

Graham, Billy on bores and boredom   

"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."

Havner, Vance on bores and boredom
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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 on bores and boredom   

"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on bores and boredom
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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."

Holtz, Lou on bores and boredom   

"Boring people are a reflection of boring people."

Horton, Doug on bores and boredom   

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

Johnson, Samuel on bores and boredom   

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"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return."

Johnson, Samuel on bores and boredom   

"Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom
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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."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom   

"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."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom   

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

Kissinger, Henry on bores and boredom