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| Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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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 |
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| Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. |
| Søren Kierkegaard |
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| He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. |
| Dylan Thomas |
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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 |
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| I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. |
| Richard Bach |
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| 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 sovere |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| Love fed fat soon turns to boredom |
| Ovid |
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| No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother |
| Voltaire |
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| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. |
| Dorothy Parker |
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| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. |
| Ellen Parr |
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| Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. |
| R. I. Fitzhenry |
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| Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. |
| Confucius |
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