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Boredom Quotes

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Guy Debord, French Writer

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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Philosopher

Boredom, Dying, Risk, Starvation

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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

William Weld, American Politician

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Boredom, Despair, Humanity, Lies

"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Boredom, Effect, Facts, Freedom

"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

Peter Straub, American Writer

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Boredom, Rebirth

"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

Boredom, Chaos, Disillusionment, Self

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Arthur Helps, British Historian

Boredom, Dying, Sense

"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Boredom, Presidency, Problems

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Boredom, Freedom, Liberty, Pleasure

"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Boredom, Moments, Possibilities

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

Boredom, Criticism

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

George Harrison, British Musician

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

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

Viggo Mortensen, American Actor

"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."

Muriel Spark, English Novelist

"Even boredom has its crises."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

"Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom."

James Galway, Irish Musician

Boredom, Routine, Running

"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

Boredom, Competition, Play, Theater

"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"

Roy H. Williams, American Businessman

Boredom, Marketing, Seduction, Want

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."

Mary Renault, English Novelist

Boredom, Defeat

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

John Mortimer, English Novelist

Boredom, Validity, Writing

"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."

Jason Zebehazy, American Author

Boredom, Effect, Writer

"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

Boredom, Laziness

"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."

Tom Kite, American Athlete

Boredom, Corporate, Fun, Old, Years

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

Boredom, Hollywood, Problems, Trouble

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

Boredom, Mediocrity

"Boredom is rage spread thin."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

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