A Quote by William S. Burroughs

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

William S. Burroughs

Quote Topics

Boredom Die

Quote Author

William S. Burroughs
American - Writer
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

John Shelby Spong

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

Sarah Dunant

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Alexander McCall Smith

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

William C. Brown

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Vincent Van Gogh

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

Lee Kuan Yew

Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

Anton Szandor LaVey

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Etgar Keret

I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.

Daria Halprin

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

David Ogilvy

I can't make a movie where I can't learn. I'd die of boredom.

Sudha Kongara

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Tallulah Bankhead

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

Christopher Hitchens

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Emile Zola

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

Jeremy Clarkson

A Quote by William S. Burroughs

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors