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“What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring”

Beautiful Differences Sky Scene Ethics Boring Bored Harsh Transient

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.”

“Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.”

Way Mind Body Bored Boredom Mind And Body

Author:Hal Sparks

“Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.”

Long Soul Bored Boredom Gray Destroying Monotony Digestion Long Day Good Digestion

Book:No exit, and three other plays

Source: No exit, and three other plays

“Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.”

People World Want Needs Made States Government Natural Decision Our Lives Degrees Bored Sensitive Threatened Hostile Decisions Made Needs And Wants Aggravated

Author:Carl Cohen

“Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.”

Pleasure Boring Bored Doing Nothing Being Bored

Author:Aidan Chambers

“And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!”

Source: Little Eve Edgarton

“Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...”

People Dies Causes London Bored Boredom Realising Sheer Suburbs

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.”

States Activity Medicine Solve Awful Bored Boredom Inaction Archery

Author:Margaret George

“Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.”

Trying Window Property Wide Contrary Bored Boredom Infinity Peril Equilibrium

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.”

People Way Self Moments Use Life Is Choices Blessing Concepts Boring Bored Boredom Present Moment Fulfilling Inability Items

Book:Your erroneous zones

Source: Your erroneous zones

“I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.”

Ifs Would Be Hell Imagine Blessing Convinced Bored Torture Boredom Bores You

Book:The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

Source: The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

“Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.”

Self Blessing Bored Boredom Self Being

Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.”

Looks Fighting Pieces Hair Blessing Constant Clouds Bored Boredom Extras Sunlight Thread Pie Candy Small Things Ribbons Blouses

Author:Valerie Wilson Wesley

“The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.”

Mind Moments Energy Environment Particular Blessing Towns Blame Boring Tendencies Bored Boredom Dull That Moment Speakers Bores

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.”

Blessing Bored Boredom Productive Paralysis

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.”

Thinking Interest Blessing Disease Intense Bored Dullness Interest In Life

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.”

Enemy Risk Worst Blessing My Friends Bored Boredom Worst Enemy

Author:Larry Niven

“Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.”

Feels Security Blessing Safe Bored Boredom Symptoms

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.”

Ifs Stills Would Be Age Christian Study Greater Progress Talent Depth Scripture Treasure Old Age Bored Leisure Discovering Attempting Zeal Boyhood Decrepit

Author:Richard Baxter

“In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.”

Way Spirit Desire Order Enjoy Prayer Ought Praying Bored Word Of God

Author:George Muller

“The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.”

Men Heart Mean Able Holy Built Conversion Ghost Chiefs Bored Righteousness Good Work Holy Ghost Sanctify

Book:Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?

Source: Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?

“I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with [her]. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.”

Years Lasts Used Week Fame Lonely Dinner Bored Last Year Apartment Spain So Bored

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.”

Wine Bored Good Wine Wine And Age So Bored

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.”

Ifs Inspirational Enough Able Language Simple Money Company Ought Intelligent Prepared Investment Investing Bored Investors Fifth Fifth Graders

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.”

“Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.”

Ifs Men Love Bored Speakers

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”

Groups Crowds Bored Introvert Introversion

Book:Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

Source: Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.”

Way Kind Use Power Stupid Ready Huge One Day Demand Mass Function Tragedy Crowds Practicals Bored Decent New Ways Lovable Not Stupid

Author:Cyril Connolly

“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”

Children Art Running School Imagination Music Tired Bored Children's Imagination

Author:T Bone Burnett

“When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.”

Love Feels Lonely Dear Bored Insult Restless Wretched Darling Dejected

Book:Complete Poetry

Source: Complete Poetry

“Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.”

World Way Years War Guy Honesty Originals Versions Bitter Posts Bored Live Life War Of The Worlds Second World War Anniversary Censored

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.”

Knows Wanted School Sports Teacher Bored Hated Exam Sergeants

Book:Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

“Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?”

Persons Doe Different Moments Character Opportunity Perfect Acting Becoming Offers Bored Boredom Routine Fleeting Outlets Fleeting Moments

Author:Osric Chau

“It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.”

Feels Years Kind Brain Morning Taken Four Evolution Wake Up Billions Bored Organisms

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored”

Quiet Bored Loud Misunderstood

Author:Adam Levine

“When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.”

“I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.”

Thinking Trying Made Different Jobs Actors Decision Worst Bored Terrified Worst Things Strategic Being Bored

Author:Alfred Molina

“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.”

Ifs Wanted Photograph Bored Aisle

Author:Matt Damon

“I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.”

Way Hate I Hate Familiar Bored Gym Routine Old Fashioned Straightforward

Author:Rihanna

“I am most scared of being bored”

Scared Bored Being Bored

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.”

Years Bored Mono

Author:Mike Myers

“A lot of newspapers say Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.”

Newspapers Bored Stamps

Author:Terence Stamp

“Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.”

Feelings Action Used Causes Bits Rooms Boys Trouble Yeah Used To Be Bored Bother Inferiors Teddy Causing Trouble

Author:Michael Gambon

“Some men just want to watch the world burn”

“What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.”

Knows Actors Talking Bored God Knows

Author:Alan Rickman

“If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.”

Ifs New York Faults Bored

Book:Myrna Loy: being and becoming

Source: Myrna Loy: being and becoming

“I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.”

Different Path One Thing Lucky Artistic Bored Territory

Author:Bill Mumy

“A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it”

Kind Today Past Young Politics Democracy Heard Poet Eras Bored

Author:Amber Tamblyn

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