Quotes About Tedium

It was boring like reading a Scandinavian novel.

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Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.

To live in constant apprehension of life. Exhaustion before one has made the effort. To attempt to laugh at it all, until the laughter becomes slightly sad, until tedium covers everything with its tenebrous haze.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Humans don't excel at performing repetitive manual work.

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Léon was het uitzichtloos verliefd zijn meer dan beu; daarbij meldde zich de neerslachtigheid die wordt veroorzaakt door de sleur van een eentonig bestaan dat geen doel of leidraad heeft, dat niet wordt gedragen door enige hoop.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.

Do you really think men and women thanked you for bringing them peace? They just became bored with your peace and so brewed their own trouble to fill the boredom. Men don't want peace, Arthur, they want distraction from tedium

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

In this book chivalry receives its fair share of attention, not from the romantic point of view, but as an elaborate game which the upper classes invented to beguile the intolerable tedium of their lives. An essential part of chivalry was the curious courtly conception of love as something which it was pleasant to leave unsatisfied.

Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

The man of method may channel all his spiritual currents towards productive ends, be relentless in his suppression of predilection and propensity, but when accident upsets the flow of his life, he finds himself drowning in a sea of tedium, hatred, and rage.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.