“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski 555

American writer 1920–1994

Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer

Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”

Diane Setterfield (1964) English novelist

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

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13

“In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.”

Alberto Moravia book L'Ennui

In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.
La noia (Milano: Bompiani, 1960) pp. 10-11; Angus Davidson (trans.) Boredom (New York: New York Review of Books, 1999) p. 8.