Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Boredom Quotes, Humanity Quotes

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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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.

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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

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Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

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I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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