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• Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

  John Berger

  Dog, Blessing, Self

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• The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Pain, Stupid

  "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973.

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• If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Years

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

  John Berryman

  Sea, Sky, Boring

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

  Bertrand Russell

  Flower, Cutting, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .

  Kurt Hahn

  People, Hardship, World

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

  Barbara Mertz

  Crush, Persons

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• The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Tyranny, Postmodernism

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• In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

  Stephen King

  Sight, Priorities, Rolling

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

  Erich Fromm

  Loneliness, Greed, Overcoming

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.97, A&C Black

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• The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

  Tim Ferriss

  Love, Inspirational, Opposites

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2007.

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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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• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Overcoming, Married, Problem

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Frustration, Adults, Routine

  "Ten Best Commencement Speeches: See A List, Take The Poll" by Katharine Zaleski, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

  Daphne du Maurier

  Antidote

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• Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

  Neal Stephenson

  Frustration, Mask

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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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• Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

  C.D. Payne

  Race, Humans, Human Race

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.182, Broadway Books

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• I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

  Kate Ross

  Thinking, Bored, Faults

  Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.45, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Selfish, Night

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Reading, Our Generation, Mind

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.2, City Lights Books

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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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• If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Misery, Moments

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

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• How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

  Bill Drayton

  Leadership, Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities

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