Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Boredom

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

• This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Names, Boredom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.260

• I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Boredom, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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