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Quotes About Tedium

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
~ Norbert Wiener
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
~ John Berryman
Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.
~ Jack O'Neill
If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
~ Lewis Black
Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.""Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.
~ D.L. Orton, Crossing in Time
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
~ Dylan Thomas
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton
To me the only death is monotony.
~ Edith Wharton
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton
What if I could write about my life exactly as it was? What if I could show it in all its density and tedium and its concealed passion, never divined or expressed, the dull brown geode that eats at itself with quartz teeth?
~ Edmund White
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.
~ Edward Gorey
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.
~ Edward Gorey
I can be black magic Or boring as hell.
~ Alex Lemon
Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.
~ Ron White
I get bored of watching baseball on TV. It's repetitive to me.
~ Aroldis Chapman
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
~ Rob Sheffield
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
~ Juliette Binoche
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
~ David Nicholls
He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.
~ Dean Acheson
Everything intelligent is so boring.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Acaso te causan dolor mis fatigas, mis ansias de verte, mis quejas baldías, mi tedio implacable, mi horror por la vida.
~ Amado Nervo
I'm a bit done with weddings. There are so many and I'm so bored of them.
~ Joe Lycett