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Updated: June 18, 2025
Take from them that disease, cure them, and they will be miserable, because they have lost their one resource in life they are left empty then. Sometimes a man's life is so poor, that he is driven instinctively to prize his vice and to live by it; one may say for a fact that often men are vicious from boredom. The soldier was offended, he went up to our baker and roared: "No, tell me do-who?"
All the polite accomplishments in their season seemed to come to him without effort; but there was in all the same lack of heart that utter want of enthusiasm which imparted to his presence a subtle suggestion of boredom. The truth was that he was over-educated.
And here let us interpose one word. If we wish to spare ourselves that most wearying of all sensations, that fatal sense of boredom and disgust for our daily task which sometimes creeps in upon us, we must try with all our hearts to take an interest in what our hands find to do. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do that do with thy might."
There is to be a return match. I perceive the chief horror of warfare is boredom.... "Our feeding here is typical of the whole system. It is a system invented not with any idea of getting the best results that does not enter into the War Office philosophy but to have a rule for everything, and avoid arguments.
She made plans to prevent herself being left alone with him, and if by chance the plans failed she listened rather than talked and listened almost with an air of boredom. "Come as often as you please!" consequently said Garratt Skinner from his hammock. "And now let us talk of something else." He talked of nothing for a while. But it was plain that he had a subject in his thoughts.
There is hardly the cry of a bird to break the spell; even the girls who meet one with a smile on the hill-side smile quietly and gravely in the Southern fashion as they pass by. It is the stillest place that the sun shines on; but with all its stillness it is far from being a home of boredom. There are in fact few places in the world so full of interest.
This whole place is like a dream to me this Delmonico's " As he talked she saw he had changed utterly. He wasn't at all light and gay and careless a great lethargy and discouragement had come over him. Revulsion seized her, followed by a faint, surprising boredom. His voice seemed to come out of a great void. "Edith," he said, "I used to think I was clever, talented, an artist.
All sorts of men made up Sidney's world: the derelicts who wandered through the ward in flapping slippers, listlessly carrying trays; the unshaven men in the beds, looking forward to another day of boredom, if not of pain; Palmer Howe with his broken arm; K., tender and strong, but filling no especial place in the world. Towering over them all was the younger Wilson.
A hobby is needed, a devotion to some larger purpose, whether it be in work or social activity. "Nature abhors a vacuum"; boredom must be avoided, for that is a pain, awakening desire. The gymnasium, golf, sports of all kinds are substitute pleasures of great value. Third, harness a friend, a superior or a respected equal to the yoke with you.
It would never return to the sky again, because life was given only once and never came a second time. If he could have turned back the days and years of the past, he would have replaced the falsity with truth, the idleness with work, the boredom with happiness; he would have given back purity to those whom he had robbed of it.
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