Quotes about bores and boredom

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

La Bruyere, Jean De on bores and boredom   

"The devil's name is dullness."

Lee, Robert E. on bores and boredom   

"His shortcoming is his long staying."

Lewisohn, Lewis L. on bores and boredom   

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

Marquis, Don on bores and boredom   

"The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life."

Miller, Henry on bores and boredom   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Parr, Ellen on bores and boredom   

"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   

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

Prior, Matthew on bores and boredom   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Taylor, Bert Leston on bores and boredom   

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

Thomas, Dylan on bores and boredom   

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on bores and boredom   

"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   

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

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom   

"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."

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom   

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

Unknown, Source on bores and boredom   

"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