
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 467.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, Religious
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13
Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 7
iTunes interview (released June 2, 2007)
2007, 2008
Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Context: No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Source: Invisible Monsters