Yay I Get To Be Bored Today Quotes & Sayings

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. — Chuck Palahniuk

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen. Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me. — Clarice Lispector

Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry — Denise Verrico

MAKE FRIENDS WITH ALIENS? — Charles Vald

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance. — Beeban Kidron

The rulers make laws for their own interests. But — Plato

It didn't matter where, really. What mattered was the connection, the space formed between the two of the, a slice cut from the universe and made private and inviolable. — Scott Westerfeld