Boredom Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment — but many other things ceased as well!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
Wayne Dyer
Mayhem achieved, boredom relieved.
Bruce McCall
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
Wayne Dyer
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there’s no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Jean Baudrillard
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
George Harrison
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?
John Berger
Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
George Bush
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Lin Yutang
Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Metallica
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
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