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Quotes about Boredom


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 is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

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

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

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

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.

John Berger

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Sir Cecil Beaton

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Jean Baudrillard

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

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.

Mme. De Stael

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Cyril Parkinson

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Karl Kraus

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

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

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Lin Yutang

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Benjamin Voltaire

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

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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