"There's nothing like impending death to rouse you……" — Roger Ebert

"There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom."

— Roger Ebert

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269 Quotes by Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert has 269 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not…
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter…
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about…
Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank…

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More Boredom Quotes

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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… — 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… — 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… — Warren Buffett
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs

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