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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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

Bertrand Russell

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Debbie Reynolds

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Wendell Phillips

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Richard M. Nixon

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Viggo Mortensen

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Jerome Lawrence

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Osbert Lancaster

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