dreariness quotes

As Einstein once said, ordinary life in an ordinary day in the modern world is a dreary business. I mean dreary. People will do anything just to escape this dreariness.

- Samuel Pepys
  Interview in Esquire, Dec.

I know not how it wasbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit† There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.