Quotes About Tedium

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

cold glassy surface of reality. I saw the gentle bookish boy you must have been, made old with tedium, wasted effort, unacknowledged kindnesses. I saw the tired, struggling righteousness of you. You were starving for want of love. You were a delicate, civilised changeling, raised among barbarians and apemen.

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Amid the horrors of war, the poets seldom saw fit to mention the deadly tedium.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.

Have you ever noticed that the less interesting something is, the longer people want to talk about it?

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

overly tedious.

There was a pedantic tedium to the way the internet was described—a continual onslaught of jargon that insisted something important was happening without fully elucidating what the important thing was.

Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny de­tails of ev­ery day do­ing the same tasks over and over.

We're here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

The distinct feature of everything extant is its monotony.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

There is nothing more boring than the truth.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Anything to vary this detestable monotony.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

To Connie, everything in her world and life seemed worn out, and her dissatisfaction was older than the hills.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

stupefied boredom.