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Letter "B" » boredom
«Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies»
«Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.»
«Boredom: the desire for desires»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
boredom, desires
«I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Ambition,
Boredom
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ambition, boredom, exhaustion
«Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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Boredom
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boredom, serenity, waste, waste of time
«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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Boredom
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boredom, depend on, fascination, fascinations, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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above all, boredom, building, bustle, bustles, bustling, carrying, characterize, characterized, commonly, feverish, futility, incoherence, participant, puffed, puffing, puffs, rush, signs, stones, sweats, The Building, the participants, weariness
«A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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after, boredom, Creation, God is greater, poet, seventh, Seventh day, subject, subjecting, would-be
«God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!»
«Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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boredom, Gods Themselves, in vain, the gods, The Gods Themselves, vain
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