#boredom

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ↗

— Richard Bach

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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Lewis Cass

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Even boredom has its crises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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

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

— Marguerite Duras

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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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