Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

People say, 'Why is he bored with her?' Because he's a human being, that's why; same way his wife is bored with him. That is marriage - anything that's supposed to be forever, your going to get bored with it. And there is nothing wrong with it, so don't take it personal; if you are with somebody for ten years and they are not bored with you? Then something is wrong with them.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

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

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

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.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.