Bored ?

[Rman Virgil]

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* Such a facinating topic.

* Used as a put-down but really reflects more of the perciever's lack of intellectual prowess than anything about the object of perception itself.

* You could create a hefty tome just on the comments of the most accomplished minds across time and nations on the subject of boredom.

* Here are a few:

- “You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea”

- “There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”

- “The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”

- "Boredom is rage spread thin."

* I'll add more, and delicious they will be.

- RV

[doom3r]

Nice quotes, but the first one seems a bit obvious to me...

I especially like these quotes, some which I found right now and some which I already heard:


"The cure for boredom is curiosity; while there is no cure for curiosity."

"If monkeys could feel boredom, they could become men" Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Boredom sets into the boring mind" - Metallica/The Struggle Within

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness". - Oscar Wilde/The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Boredom: the desire for desires." - Leo Tolstoy/Anna Karenina

[some of the quotes have been translated by me from italian to english, I hope all the translation are correct!]
"I think of it [boredom] as an index of superior intelligence, and I think its importance is really great." Bertrand Russel/Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind

[lav_coyote25]

"The cure for boredom is curiosity; while there is no cure for curiosity."

actually there is a "cure" for curiosity... death! or havent you heard about curiosity killing cats for being curious.

[Buginator]

"The cure for boredom is curiosity; while there is no cure for curiosity."

actually there is a "cure" for curiosity... death! or havent you heard about curiosity killing cats for being curious.

Cat?
Schrödinger's cat!

I also think 'bored' has many meanings, and unless you know the intention of what the user... aww forget it, I am bored already.

[Rman Virgil]

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of

boredom

Pronunciation: \ˈbȯr-dəm\

Function: noun

Date: 1852

: the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest

* Some more provoking thoughts on boredom for
those who live and delight in an intellectual bravery
that is second nature.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


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, The Conquest of Happiness


Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~Leo Stein


Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. ~Eugene Ionesco


The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~Norman Mailer


I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~Jules Renard


Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz


Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~C.C. Colton


Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires


Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~Evelyn Waugh


Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~Charlotte Whitton


When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. ~-Steven Wright


All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

- RV