Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Boredom Quotes

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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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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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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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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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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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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

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

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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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