Quotes with boredom

  • The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
  • Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
  • It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
  • Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Voltaire Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Al Boliska Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
    Al Boliska
    Canadian actor and writer
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Susan Ertz Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
    Anger in the Sky
    Susan Ertz
    British novelist (1894 - 1985)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Guy Debord Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Walter Benjamin Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Virginia Woolf Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Vikram Seth Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Isaac Asimov 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.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Bratt I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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