• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 158 reads

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• 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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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 20 votes · 159 reads

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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 30 reads

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• Boredom is the root of all evil-the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.4 · 18 votes · 148 reads

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 30 reads

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• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 125 reads

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• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 141 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 58 votes · 193 reads

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• 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

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 10 reads

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.0 · 42 votes · 166 reads

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• Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.4 · 6 votes · 177 reads

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• 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

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.2 · 39 votes · 81 reads

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• 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

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 4 reads

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 97 reads

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.8 · 37 votes · 50 reads

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• Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 76 reads

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 4 reads

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

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 17 reads

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• The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 173 reads

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• The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarce

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 175 reads

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 55 reads

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 169 reads

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• 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.

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  Edmond de Goncourt

  WriterFrench1822 · 19th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 1 reads

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• To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 33 votes · 121 reads

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

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 81 reads

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 54 reads

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