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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Quotes by William Weld

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Quotes by William Gaddis

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

Quotes by William Forsythe

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Quotes by Walter Annenberg

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Quotes by Viggo Mortensen

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Quotes by Theophile Gautier

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

Quotes by Sushant Singh Rajput

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Quotes by Susan Sontag

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Quotes by Stendhal

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Quotes by Ruth Gordon

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Quotes by Roy H. Williams

Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.

Quotes by Romesh Ranganathan

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Quotes by Romola Garai

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Quotes by Rollo May

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Quotes by Robert Lopez

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Quotes by Robert Fulghum

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

Quotes by Rick Yancey

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Quotes by Richard Bach

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Quotes by Renata Adler

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

Quotes by Penny Lancaster

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Quotes by Paul Tillich

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

Quotes by Osric Chau

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.

Quotes by Nir Eyal

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Quotes by Nicholas Hoult

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Quotes by Muriel Spark

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Quotes by Mary Renault

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Quotes by Marguerite Duras

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Quotes by Manly Hall

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Quotes by Linda Fiorentino

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Quotes by Lewis Cass

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Quotes by Kim Basinger

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

Quotes by Katharine Gun

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

Quotes by Karl Kraus

As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write extensively I get a writer's block so I do something else to beat the boredom and then get back to something I've already done.

Quotes by Kanika Dhillon

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

Quotes by Justine Musk

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

Quotes by John Scalzi

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Quotes by Jason Isbell

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Quotes by James Galway

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Quotes by James Gleick

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Quotes by Italo Calvino

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Quotes by Isabelle Adjani

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.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.

Quotes by Hugh Prather

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Quotes by Heraclitus

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Quotes by Hedy Lamarr

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Quotes by Guy Debord

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.

Quotes by Graham Linehan

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Quotes by George Sanders

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Quotes by George Harrison

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Quotes by Francisco Costa

I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

Quotes by Erin Wasson

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

Quotes by Eric Burdon

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Quotes by Emil Cioran

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Quotes by Ellen Willis

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

Quotes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Quotes by Earl Nightingale

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Quotes by Dylan Moran

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Quotes by Dylan Thomas

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Quotes by Debbie Reynolds

When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Quotes by Davinia Taylor

The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.

Quotes by Darcey Bussell

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Quotes by Coco Chanel

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Quotes by Coco Chanel

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.

Quotes by Chris Pavone

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

Quotes by Cecil Beaton

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

Quotes by Carl Hart

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

Quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

Quotes by Bennett Miller

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Quotes by Benjamin Bratt

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Quotes by Benjamin Bratt

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Quotes by Arthur Helps

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Quotes by Anish Kapoor

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

Quotes by Angela Duckworth

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Quotes by Anatole France

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

Quotes by Amy Seimetz

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

Quotes by Alissa Quart

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