“ The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 2.9K
“ You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
- 4K
“ We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 775
“ One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 2.8K
“ As for boredom... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
- 779
“ Boredom... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 692
“ Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ”
- Mary Renault- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ”
- Cormac McCarthy- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 256
“ O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 4K
“ O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us. ”
- Ethel Watts Mumford- Copy
- 2.3K
“ When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. ”
- Margaret Sackville- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotomy of a decorous age. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
- 2.7K
“ This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ”
- Stendhal- Copy
- 1.6K
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