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Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
One eventually has enough even of oneself.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.
Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.
Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.
A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!