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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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.
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
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.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.