“He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”

“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”

“I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.”

“As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.”

“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”

“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”