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quotes by topic Boredom

" 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. "

Hell , Heaven , Afterlife , Boredom

" 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. "

Result , Freedom , Boredom , Tolerance , Repetition

" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "

Wallace Stevens

Boredom

" The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. "

Richard M. Nixon

Presidency , Boredom

" The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Blessing , Progress , Boredom

" Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

Boredom , Life

" Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Boredom

" My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. "

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Boredom

" The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. "

Vladimir Nabokov

Dreams , Boredom

" Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day. "

Charles Bukowski

Future , Boredom

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