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Letter "B" » Boredom
«Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?»
«He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.»
«I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.»
«Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.»
Author: Ruth Gordon
(Actress, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Boredom
| Keywords:
discussing, Temple of, The temple
«Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Boredom,
Passion
| Keywords:
boredom, flee, jump, jump out, The Object of
«I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
afterlife, boredom, fearing, tortures
«By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
civilizations, devices, earlier, fathomed, fathoms, inventing, manufactured, privileged
«I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Ambition,
Boredom
| Keywords:
ambition, boredom, exhaustion
«In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere»
«In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.»
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