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A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

A scholar knows no boredom.

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.