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I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)
As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Even boredom has its crises.
Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.
Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
Boredom is desire seeking desire.
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.