Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. —Gerald Brenan More about this quote Tags: attention self boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Gerald Brenan Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
More quotations from Gerald Brenan The traveler, alas, is at the mercy of his aesthetic sensations. A fine evening, a seat under a plant tree, the smile of a peasant girl, the scent of orange flower, a view over mountains or river—and he feels at home. His country is not the land where his friends live, but the wider territory of beautiful things—the territory where, if one agrees with Stendhal, he collects those promissory notes of happiness which give a precious fraction of their value when they are pocketed. He is therefore continually subject to accidents. An ugly town, a rainy day, and unsympathetic hotel, and he is at once a double exile—equally far from his native land and from that ideal country which he has set out to visit. The only recourse left is a bottle of wine. —Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain More about this quote Tags: happiness accident wine traveling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. —Gerald Brenan More about this quote Tags: others sympathy self-pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The traveler, alas, is at the mercy of his aesthetic sensations. A fine evening, a seat under a plant tree, the smile of a peasant girl, the scent of orange flower, a view over mountains or river—and he feels at home. His country is not the land where his friends live, but the wider territory of beautiful things—the territory where, if one agrees with Stendhal, he collects those promissory notes of happiness which give a precious fraction of their value when they are pocketed. He is therefore continually subject to accidents. An ugly town, a rainy day, and unsympathetic hotel, and he is at once a double exile—equally far from his native land and from that ideal country which he has set out to visit. The only recourse left is a bottle of wine. —Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain More about this quote Tags: happiness accident wine traveling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. —Gerald Brenan More about this quote Tags: others sympathy self-pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “boredom” I like life. It's something to do. —Ronnie Shakes More about this quote Tags: life boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more. —Douglas Coupland in All Families are Psychotic More about this quote Tags: time change boredom vengeance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: death boredom insurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring. —Sir Anthony Hawkins More about this quote Tags: boredom conversation subtlety subtext Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. —Zelda Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like life. It's something to do. —Ronnie Shakes More about this quote Tags: life boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more. —Douglas Coupland in All Families are Psychotic More about this quote Tags: time change boredom vengeance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: death boredom insurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring. —Sir Anthony Hawkins More about this quote Tags: boredom conversation subtlety subtext Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. —Zelda Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email