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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Sep 30, 2025
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Boredom: the desire for desires.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Your true traveller 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.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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