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Boredom Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
- Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
- That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are…
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
- If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
- If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once…
- Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
More Boredom Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — Warren Buffett
- In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs