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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Boredom is the deadliest poison.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Blessing, Follow Your Heart

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

  Bill Vaughan

  Revolution, Causes, Scales

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• The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Blessing, Illness

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.164, Random House

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• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Suffering

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• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Success, Science, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

  Saul Bellow

  Blessing, Conviction, Capacity

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  Wendell Phillips

  Criticism, Form, Constructive Criticism

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• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  Renata Adler

  Sleep, Blessing, People

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• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Suffering

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• Being bored is an insult to oneself.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Humorous, Self

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  Earl Nightingale

  Blessing, Ideas, Absence

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Teenage, Blessing, Thinking

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• As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Feet, Boat

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fascination, Sides, Situation

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• The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

  Susan Sontag

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

  Thomas Szasz

  Happiness, Patience, Attitude

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

  Guy Debord

  Revolutionary

  "The Bad Old Days Will End" by Guy Debord (November 1963); later quoted in "The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International" edited by Christopher Gray, 1974.

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• I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Blessing, People, Way

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• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

  Georges Bernanos

  Dust, Hands, Bores You

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.2, Da Capo Press

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Bores You, Done, Laziness

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