John Milton Quotes, Country Quotes, Boredom Quotes

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

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I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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