Boredom Quotations
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| The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. | |||
| - Gerald Brenan | |||
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| Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. | |||
| - Frank Moore Colby | |||
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| Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. | |||
| - Charles Caleb Colton | |||
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| The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. | |||
| - Maria Edgeworth | |||
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| A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. | |||
| - Henry Ford | |||
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| Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. | |||
| - Eugene Ionesco | |||
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| There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. | |||
| - James Russell Lowell | |||
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| The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. | |||
| - Norman Mailer | |||
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| Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. | |||
| - Don Marquis | |||
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| Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. | |||
| - Dorothy Parker | |||
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| I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. | |||
| - Jules Renard | |||
| Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. | |||
| - Jules Renard | |||
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| We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. | |||
| - Thomas Szasz | |||
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| One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. | |||
| - John Updike | |||
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| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. | |||
| - Evelyn Waugh | |||
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| Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. | |||
| - Charlotte Whitton | |||
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| When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. | |||
| - Steven Wright | |||