#bored

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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.


Albert Camus


#camus #travel #boredom

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom


Charles Baudelaire


#winter #paris

Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of toothache, a thrashed backside, broken bones, stubbed toes, gashed knees or twisted ankles – I recall the pains of loneliness, boredom, abandonment, humiliation, rejection and fear. Those are the pains on which I might and, still sometimes do, dwell, and those pains, almost without exception, were inflicted on me by other children and by myself.


Stephen Fry


#boredom

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear


Daphne du Maurier


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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.


G.K. Chesterton


#marshes #monotony #boredom

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.


Susan Howatch


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Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress.


Anna Godbersen


#boredom #flirting #boredom

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom


Gustave Flaubert


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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?


Sherman Alexie


#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.


Peter Kreeft


#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure