"To be bored to death is a form…" — Frederick Buechner

"To be bored to death is a form of suicide."

— Frederick Buechner

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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner has 169 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.…

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you… — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. — Renata Adler
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I… — Theodore Bikel
I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not… — Christina Aguilera
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. — Danny Boyle
I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.… — Tom Brady
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere

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