Quotes About Tedium

I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours with sleep deprivation. Main course and dessert are separate.

But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re

Maledetti noiosi. Su tutta la Terra. Che diffondono altri maledetti noiosi. Che spettacolo dell'orrore. La Terra ne brulicava.

TOMORROW ALWAYS LOOKS THE SAME! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

Certains ne deviennent jamais fous... Leurs vies doivent être bien ennuyeuses

Boredom is the domain of the dullard.

By all accounts this evening promised to be yet another in the long progression of dog days that oozed like a piece of soft, runny brie with a hunk of moldy French bread and washed down with a mug of room-temperature Clamato.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

But he became passionately bored with them, plunged into a miasmic swamp of weariness and horror, after a time, because of the dullness and ugliness of their lives, their minds, their amusements. Dull people filled him with terror: he was never so much frightened by tedium in his own life as in the lives of others...

Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.

Pois o amor resgata a pobreza, vence o tédio, ilumina o dia e instaura em nossa natureza a imperecível alegria.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.

Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

por qué iban «ellos» a molestarse con el tedio de la existencia humana, y menos aún con el del gobierno humano?