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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
"I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It's always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers.
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
Society is now one polished horde formed of two mighty tries the Bores and Bored.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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