boredom Quotes

“I’m going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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“I have noticed since that men usually leave married women alone, and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

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“once I'd learned the trick of remembering things, I never had a moment's boredom.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:death success boredom

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