Bored Quote by Anonymous

“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and…

— John Ruskin

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the…

— Maren Elwood

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

— Simone Weil

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us,…

— John Ruskin

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

— Robert Schwentke

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

— W. Somerset Maugham

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,…

— William Shakespeare

Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in…

— Maren Elwood

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as…

— Charles Jencks

“The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They…

— Anonymous

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends…

— Aldous Huxley

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

— C. S. Lewis