The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live in trapped loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation of the last, every moment smoothly following the the gentle curves of societal norms. we act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolly myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: Fuck. That. Shit.
—Randall Munroe
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
—Nancy Astor
As I grew to adolescence, I imagined, from closely observing the boredom and vexations of matrimony, that the act my parents committed and the one I so longed to commit must be two different things.
—Shirley Abbott
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
—Dylan Thomas
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
—Evelyn Waugh
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal in life is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank God for letting you have the ride.
—Jenkin Lloyd Jones
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
—Voltaire
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
—Samuel Butler
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
—John Updike
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
—Frank Sinatra
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.… The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
—J. G. Ballard
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
—Frank Moore Colby
You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.
—Claudia Gray in Evernight