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Quotes about bores and boredom
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. (Kevorkian Jack)
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. (Kevorkian Jack)
I have a fear of being boring. (Kevorkian Jack)
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Kevorkian Jack)
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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. (Kevorkian Jack)
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. (Kevorkian Jack)
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. (Kevorkian Jack)
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. (Kevorkian Jack)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (Kevorkian Jack)
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. (Kevorkian Jack)
A yawn is a silent shout. (Kevorkian Jack)
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. (Kevorkian Jack)
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. (Kevorkian Jack)
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. (Kevorkian Jack)
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. (Kevorkian Jack)
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. (Kevorkian Jack)
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. (Kevorkian Jack)
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. (Kevorkian Jack)
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. (Kevorkian Jack)
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. (Kevorkian Jack)
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. (Kevorkian Jack)
Only those who want everything done for them are bored. (Kevorkian Jack)
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. (Kevorkian Jack)
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. (Kevorkian Jack)
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. (Kevorkian Jack)
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