Lydia Davis Quotes

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

Things are only boring if you are boring.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.