Quotes About Tedium

For a man who's just inherited a small empire, Ian, you have a remarkably sour expression on your face. Would you care to join me for a drink and a few hands of cards, my lord?" An ironic smile twisted Ian's lips as he turned to acknowledge one of the few aristocrats he respected and regarded as a friend. "Certainly," he mocked. " Your Grace. " Jordan Townsende laughed. "It gets a little tedious, does it not?

One has to seek out pleasurable sensations, in the absence of which blandness comes naturally. The upshot of this is that we must continually work at keeping suffering (including tedium) at bay, and we can do so only imperfectly. Dissatisfaction does and must pervade life. There are moments, perhaps even periods, of satisfaction, but they occur against a background of dissatisfied striving.

a heavy mass of blah.

rapid-fire monotone.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him 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 efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him meek and mild and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography.

It's so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

The next hour was three hours long

There is no greater bore than perfection.

Monomania. Monogamy. Monotony. Nothing good begins this way.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

God was bored by him.