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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

» Anonymous (-)

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

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 logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

» Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author

A yawn is a silent shout.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

» Anonymous (-)

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

» Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

» Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

» Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer

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 and writer

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

» Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer

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.

» Anonymous (-)

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

» Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

» Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet

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 de Goncourt (1822-1896) French Writer

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

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