Bored Quote by Willa Cather

“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in spite of…

— Andreï Makine

“He was only for the joyous days, the days of courage, when she could share with him all the good things he brought with…

— Anaïs Nin

“But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The…

— Kij Johnson

“She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp…

— Milan Kundera

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“Mrs. Kronborg was a strange woman. That word "talent", which no one else in Moonstone, not even Dr. Archie, would have understood, she comprehended…

— Willa Cather

“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He saw with pleasure he’d been wrong. The nervous tension and vulnerability she radiated were real, but so too was the core of strength…

— Catherine LaRoche

“She likened it to a childhood crush, such strong almost obsessive feelings, but more, it had depth. She felt attracted to everything about him,…

— Cecelia Ahern

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The…

— Virginia Woolf