Quotes About Dullness

But he became passionately bored with them, plunged into a miasmic swamp of weariness and horror, after a time, because of the dullness and ugliness of their lives, their minds, their amusements. Dull people filled him with terror: he was never so much frightened by tedium in his own life as in the lives of others...

It is dullness and not evil that begets totalitarianism.

It was a wonder a period of history so full of people having their heads chopped off could be made to seem so blindingly dull.

Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.

[Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dullness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness yet to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher.

Ni pisma nema, ni poruke iz daljine. Kao što, nažalost, nema ni?eg lepog ni neobi?nog ni uzbudljivog, nego samo jednoli?an život, bez ?uda i iznena?enja, satkan od prostih i oskudnih doga?aja, neodre?enih i nejasnih, a mu?nih i suvoparnih dužnosti i obaveza.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence of the light of our souls. Look around. We have lost the sparkle in our eyes, the passion in our marriages, the meaning in our work, the joy of our faith.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

If we knew everything about the future with certainty, our lives would be drained of emotion. No surprise and pleasure, no joy or thrill—we knew it all along. The first kiss, the first proposal, the birth of a healthy child would be about as exciting as last year's weather report. If our world ever turned certain, life would be mind-numbingly dull. The

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

I find nice people kind of boring.

Dan and Steve. I've know them for years. They're a bit dull, I'm afraid, but I have to see them sometimes. Duck noires, right? Sorry? I call 'em duck noires. Sort of a mixture of lame duck and bête noire. People you don't want to see but kinda feel you should.