Boredom Quotes - Page 18

• I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

  Jim Harrison

  People, Watches, Pace

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

  Bertrand Russell

  Holiday, Needs, Sitting

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

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• All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

  David Hayter

  Levels, Size, Excitement

  Source: collider.com

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• Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

  John Carroll

  Men, Tangled, Desire

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis

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• Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Evil, Despair

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• There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

  Orson Welles

  Travel, Journey, Emotional

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• If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Joy, Curiosity

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Creativity, Pushing Through

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• There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

  Helen DeWitt

  Fate, Thinking, People

  "The Last Samurai". Book by Helen DeWitt, 2016.

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• As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

  Harper Lee

  Education, Believe, School

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential to the growth of the soul. Pain is part of the beauty of life. It enriches us.

  Ruben Papian

  Pain, Perfect, Soul

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.10

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• Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

  Judith Viorst

  Tolerance, Attention, Lows

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• Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Attitude, Hate

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• Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Years, Class

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• The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

  David Nevins

  Enemy, Television, Predictability

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• We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Drug, Costumes

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• I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  Simon Critchley

  Anxiety, Phrases, Pascal

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• Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hurt, Boring, Smooth

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• Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Scary, Flying, Boring

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

  Tim Gunn

  Achievement, Needs, Excitement

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.122, Abrams

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• Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

  Coco Chanel

  Passion

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• Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

  Germaine Greer

  Passion, Love Life, People

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• Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

  Erica Jong

  Flying, Fifty, Moments

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.9, Penguin

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• The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Journey, Choices

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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