Ismail Kadare Quotes

People's lives are boring.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

I am bored with it all.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

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

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

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

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Boredom has always been a problem.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.