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They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)
As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.