And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-
Friedrich Nietzsche
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never...
-
Edward Gorey
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
-
Michel Houellebecq
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
-
Christopher Moore
What's this about?"" Finally. Interest, " was the only response." If this is one of your tricks.." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship...
-
Gena Showalter
More Quotes By Douglas Adams
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
This must be Thursday, ' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
