Blessing Quotes
2393 quotes by 1426 authors
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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…
— Jerome Lawrence
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
— Lin Yutang
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a…
— Luchino Visconti
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In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
— Marguerite Duras
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
— Mary Renault
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
— Norman Mailer
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The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
— Osbert Lancaster
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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
— Peter Straub
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In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
— Roy H. Williams
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Sooner barbarity than boredom.
— Theophile Gautier
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering…
— Victor Hugo
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
— Walter Annenberg
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Boredom is the deadliest poison.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
— William Gaddis
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
— William Weld
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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's…
— Albert Einstein
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If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De…
— Michael Winslow
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