The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always ''on the go.''
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
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