Boredom Quotes
698 quotes by 516 authors
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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I have a fear of being boring.
— Christian Bale
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
— Robert Adams
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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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
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
— Lenny Bruce
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
— William S. Burroughs
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
— Barbara Bush
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
— Coco Chanel
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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
— Coco Chanel
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A yawn is a silent shout.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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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