Quotes of Weariness - somelinesforyou

“ Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Exercise is labor without weariness. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ”

- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“ Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ”

- John Berger

“ The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ”

- Richard Bach

“ Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. ”

- Lu Yu

“ Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate's immortal loom. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. ”

- Voltaire

“ Work keeps at bay, three great evils — boredom, vice and need. ”

- Unknown

“ I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ”

- Bible

“ Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ”

- Bert Leston Taylor

“ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ”

- Sir Cecil Beaton

“ Fatigue is the best pillow. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ A finished person is a boring person. ”

- Anna Quindlen
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