Quotes About Tedium

so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom

A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

All my life flashed before my eyes...it was really boring.

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Don't ya'll have anything better to do than to mess with Myles?" she asked. "Sadly, Mom, they don't," Myles said. It's the only respite they have from their monotonous, inconsequential tedium of an existence." Amir's eyes widened. "Duck, Pop! He's gonna big word us to death." Amir lifted his forearm. "Thesaurus-shields up!

Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

I love the way Dorothy Sayers described the wild side of His personality. To do them justice, the people who crucified Jesus did not do so because he was a bore. Quite the contrary; he was too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have declawed the lion of Judah and made Him a housecat for pale priests and pious old ladies.9

Even boredom has its crises.

We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend] 'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

Quase todos os homens vivem inconscientemente no tédio. O tédio é o fundo da vida, foi o tédio que inventou os jogos, as distracções, os romances e o amor.

A constant flow of news invades existence today, destroying the silence and peace of humble lives, without abolishing their tedium.

Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium. Only the contemplation of the immediate saves us from tedium in this incomprehensible universe.

It is enough for beauty to touch our tedium for our heart to be torn like silk between the hands of life.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

The true sadness of reality it's that it is forgotten that magic is everywhere. We buried it with worry and tedium because deep inside we all know it takes strength to wield a wand. It takes energy and belief to step back from the fog of reality and recognize the wonder in almost everything. You're resisting what is inevitable, and when you finally figure this all out things will be both heavier and more fantastic.