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“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“I wished there was some way to explain how very uninterested I was in a normal human life.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.” Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park” - 1814

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil” - 1886

“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“I have noticed since that men usually leave married women alone, and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“The more boring the child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor” - 1999

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.” Albert Camus, “The Fall” - 1956

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