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

La Bruyere, Jean De on bores and boredom    Share


"The devil's name is dullness."

Lee, Robert E. on bores and boredom    Share

"His shortcoming is his long staying."

Lewisohn, Lewis L. on bores and boredom    Share

"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."

Marquis, Don on bores and boredom    Share

"The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on bores and boredom    Share

"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on bores and boredom    Share

"Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on bores and boredom
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"You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea."

Nightingale, Earl on bores and boredom    Share

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Parr, Ellen on bores and boredom    Share

"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness."

Pascal, Blaise on bores and boredom    Share

"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."

Prior, Matthew on bores and boredom    Share

"Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom."

Russell, Bertrand on bores and boredom    Share

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Russell, Bertrand on bores and boredom    Share

"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."

Sanders, George on bores and boredom
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"People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on bores and boredom    Share

"For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know."

Shakespeare, William on bores and boredom    Share

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

Sontag, Susan on bores and boredom
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"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."

Steinberg, Saul on bores and boredom    Share

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

Taylor, Bert Leston on bores and boredom    Share

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."

Thomas, Dylan on bores and boredom    Share

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on bores and boredom    Share

"Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life."

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom    Share

"A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway."

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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."

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"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."

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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

Updike, John on bores and boredom
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"All kinds are good except the kind that bores you."

Voltaire on bores and boredom    Share

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