To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down.
David Foster WallaceMonotony 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.
G.K. ChestertonНаверное, она думала, что он злится или обижается. А он - ни то, ни другое. Просто стало скучно. Так бывает иногда среди затянувшейся игры. Вдруг понимаешь - всё надоело. Кругом по-прежнему бегают, шумят, веселятся, а тебе уже не хочется. И знаешь - сегодня больше ничего интересного не будет. Лишь пустой вечер перед сном.
Vladislav KrapivinTag: boredom
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.
B.F. SkinnerTag: boredom
Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break, waving his arms and shouting gibberish and holding ten cigarettes at once in his mouth, like a panpipe. Year after year, a face the same color as your desk. Lord Jesus. Coffee wasn't allowed because of spills on the files, but on the break he'd have a big cup of coffee in each hand while he pictured himself running around the outside grounds, shouting. He knew what he'd really do on the break was sit facing the wall clock in the lounge and, despite prayers and effort, count the seconds tick off until he had to come back and do this again. And again and again and again.
David Foster WallaceGood digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.
Jean-Paul SartreTag: boredom mundane zeus the-flies
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
Sherman AlexieTag: life reading books inspiration necessity boredom dullness
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
Louis C.K.Tag: inspirational advice boredom young bored reprimand
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Emil M. CioranTag: time boredom ecstasy ennui
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At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
Benjamin J. CareyTag: art friendship reading books happiness love passion family hate romance sadness death marriage literature distance mourning authors babies anger illness depression obsession boredom birth disdain dying disease enjoyment thirst grieving disgust knowlege fondness
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