boredom Quotes

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

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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