boredom Quotes

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

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

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

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“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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“I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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