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• Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Husband, Wife

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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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• 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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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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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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• No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.

  Tom McEvoy

  Ems, Limits, Moments

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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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• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Soul, Risk

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

  Alex Kapranos

  Blessing, Sick, Band

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

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• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Blessing, Men, Years

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

  Blaise Pascal

  Struggle, Blessing, Overcoming

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Men, Play

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.254, U of Nebraska Press

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• There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

  Jeremy Renner

  Blessing, Too Much, Trouble

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• Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Blessing, Play, Competition

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• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blessing, Expectations, Demon

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

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• Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Blessing, Wind, Gazing

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Blessing, Mourning

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Sleep, Heaven

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

  Jason Isbell

  Needs, Done, Should

  "Hangout and About, Part 1: Jason Isbell is Solo, But Not Alone" by Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Loneliness, Often Is

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