Boredom Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Darkness Existentialism Loss Love Numbness Passion
“He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped her confidence… — Yo Yo Copy Share Image
“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in… — Sibylla Matilde Copy Share Image
“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.” — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
“She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. ” — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt. It seemed… — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert 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
