Quotes: boredom
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Source: Anger in the Sky -
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930) -
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
