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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
- Died
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
- Laziness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
- Sooner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
- Generic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Entails
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.
- Rage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is rage spread thin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desires
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Keeps
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Routine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
We choose mania over boredom every time.
- Fearsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
- Fearing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dull
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!
- Jogging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deepening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020