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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.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
View quotes by Ellen Parr

Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom
View quotes by Danny Blanchflower

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
View quotes by Richard Nixon

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Candide
View quotes by Voltaire

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
View quotes by Galbraith

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
View quotes by Henry Miller

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
View quotes by Sir Cecil Beaton

Sooner barbarity than boredom.
View quotes by Théophile Gautier

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
View quotes by Thomas Szasz

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
View quotes by Heinrich Heine

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.
View quotes by Heraclitus

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
View quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

My plan is to die of exhaustion, not of boredom.
View quotes by Sir Angus Grossart

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
View quotes by Osbert Lancaster

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
View quotes by Earl Nightingale



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