Victor Hugo on boredom
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.”
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is life, if it is not death.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Those who do not weep, do not see.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
James ClearJames Clear One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
James ClearJames Clear I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
Lil DurkLil Durk I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
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