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"It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings."
"Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings."
"The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels."
"Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment."
"The way to be a bore is to say everything."
"Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression."
"Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest."
"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
"I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities."
"Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?"
"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"
"Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom."
"There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom."
"I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat."
"Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits."
"There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration."
"And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on."
"I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom."
"Passion always goes, and boredom stays."
"I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed."
