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“Isnt not to be bored one of the principal goals of life?”
“Boredom forces you to ring people you havent seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order c...”
“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”
“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”
“My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”
“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”
“Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.”
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
“If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.”
“And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.”
“I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvio...”
“I took ten days off and by 11 oclock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then and then what? By lunchtime I was so bored that I de...”
“Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.”
“Boredom is your mind and bodys way of telling you youre not living up to your potential.”
“Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine that is, activity which could solve it, is seen as odious.Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats...”
“Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredomah the soul-destroying boredomof long days of mild content.”
“A utopia cannot, by denition, include boredom, but the utopia we are living in is boring.”
“Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.”
“Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.”
“Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, firew...”
