"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."
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23 quotes about boredom
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boredom Quotes
"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more."
"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided."
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"Boredom is the fear of self."
"I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."
"There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..."he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge."
"The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty."
"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."
"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."
"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored."
"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."
"... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"NOT UNTIL I MET YOUNot until I felt your sunshine,Did I realize that I had been in the shade.Not until I saw all your colors,Did I realize that mine had faded.Not until I heard your dreams,Did I realize that I was still sleeping.And not until I experienced my life with you,Did I realize that I was barelyBreathing."
"HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)"
"Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island."
"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."
"There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge."