Quotes About Dullness

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

My mind was so dull, my nerves so worn from waiting, that only an emotionless vacuum remained.

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

He is a stem, a husk, barren and thin, withered by sun, erased by wind, emptied by seasons of dullness, marked by seconds of duty, scarred by regret only the faintest of lines dare to write out, which no one, not even him, can interpret anymore. People have told him a crow will reveal more than anything his face has to share.

The peculiar characteristic of the philistine is a dull, dry kind of gravity, akin to that of animals. Nothing really pleases, or excites, or interests him, for sensual pleasure is quickly exhausted, and the society of philistines soon becomes burdensome, and one may even get tired of playing cards.

She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

slower than WindClan, duller than RiverClan, scrawnier than ShadowClan.

All work and no play makes Backson a dull boy. Kept up for long enough, it makes him dead, too.

To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!

Nelson Chase's dull face hung in the middle distance like a jack-a-lantern.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasures, I find quite depressing and despicable.

Besides, life had become confoundedly dull of late. The Season had lost its charms after so many years of sameness.

She amuses you? she repeated. And that is reason for marriage? An excellent one, he agreed. I believe I shall not know a moment's dullness with Henry.

Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least.

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Those born dull remain dull

The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.