#boredom

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bore #boredom #boring #contagious #cynic

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Robert Fulghum

#chances #comes #fear #i #learning

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

— James Galway

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Sooner barbarity than boredom. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#boredom #sooner #than

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#boredom #find #good #good idea #idea

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root