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Boredom Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and…
- Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
- Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,…
- To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot…
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
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