"Boredom: the desire for desires." — Leo Tolstoy

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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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