Age Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Funny
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon… — Irvin Yalom Copy Share Image
“Fight the Boredom To be, in a word, unborable. … It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
