Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. — Charles de Lint
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult… — R C Sproul
The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest… — Beatrice Sparks
Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with… — Sheri S. Tepper
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in… — Jack Kerouac
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy… — Anne Lamott
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.… — Wendell Berry
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was… — Wilkie Collins
There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which… — Kate Chopin
Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to… — Unknown Author
You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment… — William Shakespeare
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to… — Lionel Shriver
She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling… — Ilona Andrews
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. — H P Lovecraft
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull… — Samuel Beckett
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it… — Albert Einstein
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and… — Edith Wharton
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov

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