Boredom Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

  Mason Cooley

  Divorce, People, Citing

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• Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Needs

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• Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

  Rodney Yee

  Practice, Feelings, Stuck

  "Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee on Finding Your Inner Yoga". Interview with Eva Norlyk Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, World, Mysterious

  Carlos Castaneda (1984). “Fire from Within”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

  Emile M. Cioran

  One Thing

  "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto" by David Shields, www.believermag.com. March 2006.

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• As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

  John Scalzi

  Writing, People, Tolerance

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Youth, Cherish

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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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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Please, Bores

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• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fear, Risk, Danger

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 96, 2006.

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• Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Pain, Believe, Addiction

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• London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

  Sándor Márai

  Desert, London, Endless

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• Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

  Jack Vance

  Real, Fugitive, Dissatisfaction

  "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 5), 1969.

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• Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.

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  Ram Dass

  Beautiful, Art, Loneliness

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Anything In Life, Ifs

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• One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Expectations, Inspire, Frustrated

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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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• God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moments, That Moment, Wells

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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