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Boredom Quotes
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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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?"
15
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
8
"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
6
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
6
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
5
"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"
5
"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
4
"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
4
"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
4
"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
4
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
4
"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."
4
"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."
4
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
4
"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
3
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
3
"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
3
"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."
3
"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."
3
"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."
3
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
2
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
2
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
2
"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."
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