“I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

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American children's writer 1965

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.”

James Reston (1909–1995) Journalist, newspaper editor

New Leader (The New York Times (7 January 1963)

“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.