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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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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

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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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It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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

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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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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

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