Quotes About Tedium

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. He was the most boring child I ever met.

Killing time is not an easy job

Ich las das langweilige Buch, schlief darüber ein, im Schlafe träumte ich, weiter zu lesen, erwachte vor Langeweile, und das dreimal.

I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that will entertain me but also help me appreciate what I am seeing.

Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

Tessa liked her, in a dreary sort of way – the sort of way one liked picking one's nails or staying in bed all morning.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Conversation from the living room was boring, all

There was a lot of halting and waiting, little acknowledgment, little affirmation, but sometimes all it takes is a wink or a nod from some unexpected place to vary the tedium of a baffling existence.

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. (...) It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash it again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

Nothing. Nothing but a great, amiable boredom.

I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

La tarea de ablandar el ladrillo todos los días, la tarea de abrirse paso en la masa pegajosa que se proclama mundo, cada mañana topar con el paralelepípedo de nombre repugnante, con la satisfacción perruna de que todo esté en su sitio, la misma mujer al lado, los mismos zapatos, el mismo sabor de la misma pasta dentífrica, la misma tristeza de las casas de enfrente, del sucio tablero de ventanas de tiempo con su letrero «Hotel de Belgique».

boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

I like in-person interviews, but I do a lot of interviews over the phone, and it's so boring. The same questions over and over.

The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.

Je m'ennuie à mort parfois moi-même. Alors il me paraît normal que je puisse t'ennuyer.

I'm sick of the treadmill.