Quotes with boredom

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  • Benjamin Bratt The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Heraclitus 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.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Henry Miller 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.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • R. I. Fitzhenry Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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  • Bertrand Russell Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anatole France Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Earl Nightingale You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley Your true traveler 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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