Bored Quotes - Page 6

• Ever to confess you're bored
  means you have no
  Inner Resources.

  John Berryman

  Mean, Resources

  77 Dream Songs (1964) no. 14

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Boredom, Paralysis

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• 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

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  Stephen Covey

  Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

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• When I get bored, I get into trouble.

  Angie Harmon

  Trouble

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

  William Allen White

  Morning, Strange, Wonder

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• Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

  Henry Flynt

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

  Renata Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Watches

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Saunders

  Goodbye, Crazy, Mad

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• Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Sanders

  Leaving, World, Dear

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.

  George Saunders

  Goodbye, Leaving

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• If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

  Samuel Butler

  My Own, Saved, Dies

  "Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill".

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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• Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

  Bertrand Russell

  Interesting, Boredom, Decision

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• Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Past, Boredom

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• I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

  Khalil Gibran

  Talking, Boredom, Soul

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• You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

  Marty Liquori

  Training, Littles

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• I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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