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• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Office, Long

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Sky, Differences

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• Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

  Maria von Trapp

  Memories, Hands, Games

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• Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

  Hal Sparks

  Boredom, Mind, Body

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• Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Long, Soul, Digestion

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  Carl Cohen

  Government, People, Decision

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• Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

  Aidan Chambers

  Doing Nothing, Boring, Pleasure

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Boredom, People, Causes

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• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

  George Eliot

  Blessing, Thinking, Interest In Life

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.444, Booklassic

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• Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Progress, Age

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• In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

  George Muller

  Prayer, Order, Desire

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller". Book by George Müller, First Part, 1837.

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• The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Mean, Men

  Jay Patrick Green, Sr., John Charles Ryle (2002). “Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with [her]. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.

  Robert Pattinson

  Lonely, Years, Spain

  "Robert Pattinson's just a lonely heart". www.express.co.uk. Februry 9, 2009.

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wine, So Bored, Good Wine

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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• I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

  Henry James

  Feminism, Shut Up, Stills

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.603, Harvard University Press

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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Procrastination, Years, Long

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• Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, Ifs

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• I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Groups, Crowds, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Power, Tragedy

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• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  T Bone Burnett

  Music, Running, Art

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• Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

  Rachel Johnson

  Mean, Blonde, Half

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• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  Earl King

  Albums, Serious, Kind

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• I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Character, Stories, Benefits

  "‘Magic City’: Jeffrey Dean Morgan On His Return To TV And The Allure Of New Starz Series" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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