Boredom Quote by Charlaine Harris Download Open image “He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.” — Charlaine Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Boredom Word Contempt Contempt Boredom Convey Indifference Indifference Indifference Contempt Language Spoke
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and his longings, always enthusiastic. He was delighted by things of an improbable or impractical nature, which he sought out with the open-hearted gladness of a child at play. When he spoke, he did so originally, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share
“He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Te quiero -dijo- Nada de lo que hagas o digas podrá cambiarlo. Si me pidieras que enterrase un cadáver, o que me cargase a… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Sookie: "Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.” — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
