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Dullness is a misdemeanor.
Ethel Wilson
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
E. V. Knox
Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
Hugh Prather
Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.
Anonymous
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.
John Kieran
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Helen Maclnness
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
Anonymous
Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.
Julie O. Smith
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
D.H. Lawrence
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
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
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try it for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
Zen saying
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.
Theodore Haecker
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Erich Fromm
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Stendhal
Getting bored is not allowed.
Kay Thompson
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
A. G. Buckham
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
Jean Giono
If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.
Cynthia Propper Seton
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
Dr. William Menninger
When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad.
Bible
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann von Goethe
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age.
Diana Rose Morcilla
The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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