Boredom Quotes

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great… — Renata Adler
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in… — Warren Buffett
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. — Barbara Bush
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Thomas Carlyle
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. — Coco Chanel
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. — Coco Chanel
A yawn is a silent shout. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the… — Isaac Asimov
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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