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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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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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• 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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• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Sleep, Men

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessing, Problem, Presidency

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• Boredom slays more of existence than war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Existence, Funny Boredom

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A scholar knows no boredom.

  Jean Paul

  Scholar, Knows

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• The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

  Voltaire

  Secret, Brevity, Bores

  SAMUEL JOHNSON

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• Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Waiting, Soldier, Three

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• It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

  Luchino Visconti

  Funny, Blessing, Discovery

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• Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Passion, Increase, Mischievous

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• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

  Fighting, Blessing, Clouds

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• Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

  E. V. Knox

  Mind, Excitement, States

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Bores You, Bored

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

  Dave Barry

  Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.13, Rodale

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• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Witty, Powerful, Nice

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boring, Amusing, Bores

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Opportunity, Blessing, Matter

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inability, Use, Way

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Fighting, Vain

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.152, Algora Publishing

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Mind, Energy

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