Plato was a bore.
Boredom - Boring Quotes
A savorless people, gulping tasteless food and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. – A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises… The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
I’ve done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
Living, just by itself – what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you.
