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• Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Knowing, Meditation

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• Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

  Rajneesh

  Philosophy, Past, Years

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• Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Technique, Thrill, Stories

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• The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Bores, Commandments, Thyself

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.11, Frog Books

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• I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

  Winston Churchill

  Slipping, Coma, Died

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Restless, Bores

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

  Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

  War, Frustration, Men

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• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  Victor Hugo

  Law, Submit, Torment

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Causes, Results, Promiscuity

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.26, BookBaby

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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

  Peter De Vries

  Adventure, Pay, Bother

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Way

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

  Rick Yancey

  Kids, Games, Wings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Respect, Loss

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• Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

  Jessica Zafra

  Healthy, Soul, Body

  Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Inability

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, House

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• BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Enemy, Truth Is

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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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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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Travel, Tourists

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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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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• We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Phones, Self, Trying

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