Khalil Gibran Quotes, Talking Quotes, Boredom Quotes

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

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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 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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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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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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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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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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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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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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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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