Boredom Quotes - Page 14

• They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Omnipotence, Succeed, Experiments

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• I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Dying, Dying Of Boredom

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• I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Voice, Long

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• My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

  Anthony Swofford

  Loneliness, Despair

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  Albert Camus

  Book, Reality, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Lust

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

  Robertson Davies

  Evil, Stupidity, Three

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Dying

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• I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

  Mo Willems

  Book, Beats, Amanda

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

  Jack Kerouac

  Being Alone, Men, Healthy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

  Jung Chang

  Labor, Exhausting

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Names, Knowing

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  MacDonald Harris

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

  Osric Chau

  Character, Opportunity, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

  Rebecca Stead

  People, Mind, Happens

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.44, Wendy Lamb Books

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• People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love.  They’re wrong.  The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

  Nicole Kidman

  Love Is, People, Enemy

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• You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Havens

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• Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sleep, Giving, Tonight

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Long, Gone

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

  Jess Walter

  People, Contentment, Empty

  Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Loneliness, Love You, Desire

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

  Albert Camus

  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

  David Ogilvy

  Hard Work, Men, Disease

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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