Try to embrace, or let yourself be embraced by, boredom and anguish, which anyhow are larger than you. No doubt you'll find that bosom smothering, yet try to endure it as long as you can, and then some more. Above all, don't think you've goofed somewhere along the line, don't try to retrace your steps to correct the error. No, as the poet said, "Believe your pain." This awful bear is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won't finally unclasp. Joseph Brodsky
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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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...
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Edward Gorey
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
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Michel Houellebecq
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
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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...
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Gena Showalter
More Quotes By Joseph Brodsky
Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
