Happiness Quote by Jess Walter

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

— Jess Walter

“All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there’s no one who bores him more than himself.”

— David Levithan

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life,…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“I try to be interested in very nearly everything. I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.”

— Kate Ross

“What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.”

— Charlie Lovett

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

“He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.”

— Joseph Heller

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“Just existing is where a lot of living happens.”

— Fred Gallagher

“A world without boredom would be dull.”

— Susan Maushart

“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.”

— Voltaire