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“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why not? Though I've never discovere...”
“Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so i...”
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
“When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.”
“[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great o...”
“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in...”
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!”
“Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.”
“Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.”
“A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.”
“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off...”
“He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too muc...”
“Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.”
“We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.”
“I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?”
“Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.”“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.”
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched th...”
