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Thu 29 Oct 2020

Bores

Posted by PJ under boredom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.”

—Don Marquis, quoted in O Rare Don Marquis by Edward Anthony

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Mon 16 Mar 2020

Bored

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Random quote of the day:

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

—Samuel Butler, The Fair Haven

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Tue 10 Dec 2019

Bored

Posted by PJ under boredom, passion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

—Emile Zola, The Ladies’ Paradise

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Mon 7 Jan 2019

Bored

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Random quote of the day:

“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”

—Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

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Fri 4 May 2018

Wearying

Posted by PJ under boredom, desire, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.”

—Samuel Butler, Characters and Passages from Note-Books

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Tue 18 Nov 2014

Slay me

Posted by PJ under boredom, quote of the day, war
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Random quote of the day:

“Boredom slays more of existence than war.”

—Norman Mailer, interview, The Paris Review, Winter-Spring 1964, No. 31

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Wed 7 Nov 2012

Same place, same thing

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Random quote of the day:

 

“The less routine the more life.”

—attributed to Amos Bronson Alcott

 

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Thu 19 Apr 2012

Yawn

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Random quote of the day:

 

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 304, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

 

 

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Fri 29 Jul 2011

POV

Posted by PJ under boredom, quote of the day, serenity
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Random quote of the day:

 

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

—Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

 

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Fri 1 Jul 2011

Borrrrrr-ing

Posted by PJ under boredom, evil, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Boredom is the root of all evil—the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

—Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

 

 

I couldn’t really verify this quote. It’s widely propagated on the interdweebs and is probably a corruption or an alternate translation of something that appeared in the essay “Crop Rotation” (or, alternately translated, “Rotation of Crops”) in Kierkegaard’s book, Either/Or. I think this one is pithier than the quote I could verify: “Boredom is the root of evil; it is that which must be held off.” I can never resist a good pith, so I decided to use the one above.

(Thanks to handworn for calling my attention to this quote.)

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