Boredom Quotes - Page 27

• Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Betrayal, Long

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Boring

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• So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dies

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• 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

  Pain, Artist, Evil

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  News, Towns, Speed

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• The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

  Sarah Dunant

  Frustration, Devil, May

  Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House

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• Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

  Voltaire

  Men, Misery, Born

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• Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

  Mason Cooley

  Sleepy, Restless

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• The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

  Yann Martel

  Swings, Opposites, Pairs

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.240, Vintage Canada

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• Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

  Jack O'Neill

  Bored, Right Now

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• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Despair, Hacking

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• The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• Boredom is why God invented books.

  Julie Schumacher

  Book

  Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.119, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

  William Ralph Inge

  Book, Reading, Rust

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Please, Bores

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• Climate definitely interests the climate crowd at some science magazines, talks or blogs. Some blogs are amazing. They will post one comment about one graph of temperature records from tree rings and get over a thousand comments. Which is boredom so purified and crystalized it's in an unadulterated form that could make even a robot want to commit suicide.

  Randy Olson

  Suicide, Tree, Interest

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

  Mason Cooley

  Neurosis, Cures

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• Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Usual, Routine

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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Endurance, World

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

  Frederick Lenz

  Horror, Possibility, Mortality

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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 completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Men, Years

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

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• My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Feelings, Facts, Emptiness

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.154, Vintage

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Focus, Tolerance

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