I learned that even after a single day’s experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He’d have laid up enough memories never to be bored. (“The Stranger”)
Boredom - Boring Quotes
I sometimes say to myself: “Life is too short to be worth troubling about.” Yet if a bore calls on me, prevents me from going out or attending to my affairs, I lose patience and cannot endure it for half an hour.
There is nothing so pathetic as a bore who claims attention – and gets it.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
He’s a stick in the mud.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
All things are the worse for the wearing.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
The people who are aware of themselves are henceforward independent; and they are never bored, and life is only too short, and they are steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
