Boredom Quotes - Page 6

• Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Acceptance

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• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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• Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Vistas, Ennui

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

  Nelson Shanks

  Exercise, Oil, Vision

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• There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Hell, Terrible

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Wheels, Regularity

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• The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Perfection, Majority

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• That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Speech, Insipid, Tedious

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

  Dean Koontz

  Ability, Stale, Ifs

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• We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Bores

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• Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

  Rene Magritte

  Painting, Habit, Bores

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Revolution, Causes

  'End of an Age' (1948) ch. 6

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• A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Mind

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.125, RosettaBooks

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• People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tired, People

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• Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Self, People

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

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• Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

  Moss Hart

  Poverty, Kind, Poor

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• Artists never seem to get bored with life.

  John Kurtz

  Artist, Bored, Seems

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• Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Sap, Superficial

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• I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Suicide, Suicidal, Winter

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• The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

  Elias Canetti

  People, Adjusting, Firsts

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

  Christopher Moore

  Crazy, Blessing, Islands

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• The devil's name is dullness.

  Robert E. Lee

  Names, Devil, Bores

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• You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Painting, Knows

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