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Boredom Quote by Karl Kraus

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called…” quote by Karl Kraus — Download Open image

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”

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I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,…

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Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring.

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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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I`m bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

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When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

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I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

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“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

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Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

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The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

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