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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.