“I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?” MorningFailureMountainDullSmallness Author:Emily Carr
“Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!” MorningSunTwentiesStormYesterdayWeatherDullFortySixtyDull Days Author:Leigh Mitchell Hodges
“We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light” KnowsLightCoursesWishMorningWitnessBoredomDullFierceStrictImpatienceBearing Witness Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004 Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.” ThinkingWantMeanTwoLastsNightThreeHoursHalfMoralMorningMinutesStupidComfortConversationLateArgumentUglyDinnerClockToneDullInvitesEvery NightCompanionshipEnforcementLast MinuteThree Friends Author:Mason Cooley
“I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.” HardLightMightEyeHalfMorningSawsFeetCreaturesRainInstrumentsLaysDullSparksYellowCandleLimbsLifelessBurnt OutFrankenstein Novel Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus