"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."

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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

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"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

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"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

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"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Philosopher

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"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

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"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."

Jason Zebehazy, American Author

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"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

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"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."

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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."

"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."

"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Explore more quotes by Oscar Wilde

"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."

"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

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