Quotes on boredom
Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
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Leo Stein Quotes
I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
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Jules Renard Quotes
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
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Steven Wright Quotes
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Charlotte Whitton Quotes
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
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Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
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Le Duc de Lévis Quotes
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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Norman Mailer Quotes
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes