Boredom Quotes - Page 32

• The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

  Desson Thomson

  Theater, Projectors

  "Adam Sandler, breeding 'Anger'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.

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• Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Expression, Profound, Soul

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• Boredom makes you do crazy things

  Jenny Holzer

  Crazy, Crazy Things

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

  Noel Coward

  Writing, Speed, High Speed

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• As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

  John Jay Chapman

  Done, Leaving Me

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• I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

  Peggy Noonan

  Sailing, Apathy, Sides

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, Thinking, Chinese

  José Napoleón Oropeza, Diane Arbus (1986). “El bosque de los elegidos: escrito en homenaje a Diane Arbus”

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• Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

  Bruce Herschensohn

  Sex, Men, Shopping

  Bruce Herschensohn (2000). “The Gods of Antenna”, p.72, iUniverse

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• Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.

  Zlata Filipović

  Sweet, Children, Fun

  Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult

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• I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Golf, Gun, Hunting

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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• It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

  African Spir

  Feelings, Needs, Mirages

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• The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

  Alia Shawkat

  Children, Growing Up, Suburbs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Anxiety, Doe

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.157, Bantam

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• Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

  Anne Morice

  Hands, Curious, Chemical Reactions

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• I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

  Erin Wasson

  Height, Speed, Phobia

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• Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Trying, Resources

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• I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Lazy, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Hands, Trying, Fidgeting

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.130, Penguin

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• We choose mania over boredom every time.

  James Gleick

  Mania

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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• I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Book, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, People

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• Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.

  Aldous Huxley

  Girl, Art, Real

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• A dull ax never loves grindstones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, Grindstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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