- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom Quotes
The itch behind every idle moment.
This set treats boredom as something more interesting than it sounds: one writer calls it a form of judgment in disguise, another describes it hatching real experience the way an egg hatches something Bored minds rarely expect.
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
- Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
- 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