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~ The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. ~

Malcolm Muggeridge

~ Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. ~

E. V. Knox

~ Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. ~

Henry Miller

~ Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. ~

Dorothy Gilman

~ I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ~

Manly Hall

~ The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~

R. I. Fitzhenry

~ Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~

R. I. Fitzhenry

~ Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~

R. I. Fitzhenry

~ Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~

Charlotte Whitton

~ Boredom: the desire for desires. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. ~

Walter Benjamin

~ Boredom is the deadliest poison. ~

William F. Buckley, JR.

~ Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ~

Susan Sontag

~ Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Boredom is the keynote of poverty -- of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -- for where there is no money there is no change of any kind. ~

Moss Hart

~ Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair. ~

Valerie W. Wesley

~ It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer. ~

Luchino Visconti

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

Soren Kierkegaard

~ Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. ~

Ruth Gordon

~ Boredom is rage spread thin ~

Paul Tillich

~ Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. ~

Lin Yutang

~ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ~

Voltaire

~ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~

Thomas Szasz

~ One must chose in life between boredom and suffering ~

Madame de Stael

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