"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."

Irony, Boredom, Gold, Pain, Gratitude

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."

Exlpore more Irony quotes

"It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively, that was merely an unintended side effect."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Irony, Humor, Tradition, Sports

"If you see this guy drowning, do not stop him, it might be Peter trying to walk on water reaching Christ."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

Irony, Humor, Faith, Doubt, Risk

"Look innocent. Have hope. "Okay. "And remember "What? "Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Irony, Humor, Hope, Strategy

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but tequila makes it so she doesn't give a shit if she's fond of you are not."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Irony, Absence, Alcohol, Humor

"If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Irony, Humor, Heaven, Hell, Logic

"You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible to be me. I'm rich, talented, and I make girls cry.""How do you make girls cry, exactly?"George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forward, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, "My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence."

Ilona Andrews, American Writer

Irony, Humor, Ego, Self-Awareness

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Irony, Peace, Violence, Humor

"I always listen to you. Except when I don't."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Irony, Choice, Humor, Attention

"And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Irony, Identity, Arrogance, Self

"The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Irony, Emotion, Distance, Feeling

Explore more quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."

Logic

"Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree."

Survival

"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."

Love

"A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear."

Spiritual

"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words."

Expression

"I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard."

Peace

"At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now !I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do."

Love

"Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells."

Equality

"Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."

Wisdom

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."

Religion