#boredom

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fear #history #our #result #ultimately

Even boredom has its crises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#crises #even

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#fully #lived #love #such #thing

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#chances #comes #fear #i #learning

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. ↗

— James Galway

#boredom #breeds #familiar #routine #running

Sooner barbarity than boredom. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#boredom #sooner #than