Quotes About Dullness

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

The distinct feature of everything extant is its monotony.

God made white people boring, then yawned and they all turned to stone.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

If you want to overcome death itself, whose armor is sleep, dream, and dullness, you must climb from one step of awakening to the next. Imagine: the lowest step of this heavenly ladder is called "genius." What name shall we then give to the highest ones? They remain unknown to the multitudes and are considered to be legend

Bullies are bullies, and they're always uninteresting.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Most people are boring and stupid.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

First," she said, "he's dull. He's not lively. Now, plenty of women marry dull men, but your Simon isn't kind, either, and that's a terrible combination. Marrying a man who's dull and nice is fine, or a man who's cruel but fascinating—some people have an appetite for that. But marrying a man who's ponderous and unkind is a recipe for unhappiness.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

The geology museum had a wonderful dullness." We make our way over to a case full of geodes, before Oliver pauses transfixed. "I love the idea of something dull on the outside, and spectacular and crystalline on the inside.

In short, everything that might make a town interesting or pleasant had been made boring or unpleasant, and if Paltryville had been listed in a guidebook the only helpful hint about what to do when you got there would be: "Leave.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

No special form of city blight is nearly so devastating as the Great Blight of Dullness.

stupefied boredom.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Él nunca se lo perdonó. Es una costumbre que tienen los aburridos

The generation into which I was born was tedious.