"And I am bored to death with..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”

“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!”

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

“You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.”

“There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.”

“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”

“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”

“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”

“This thought is as a death.”