Bores And Boredom

(33 votes)   The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

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(176 votes)   The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

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(118 votes)   There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers

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(116 votes)   The devil's name is dullness.

Robert E. Lee
1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander

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(113 votes)   The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(102 votes)   Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(93 votes)   The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(90 votes)   A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.

Source Unknown

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(89 votes)   Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(88 votes)   The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always ''on the go.''

Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer

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(86 votes)   All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(86 votes)   Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.'' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

John Berryman
1914-1972, American Poet

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(80 votes)   Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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(77 votes)   Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(76 votes)   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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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