Quotes About Tedium

Merry-go-rounds are a shared lie of childhood. Cruelty masked as fun. Tedium cloaked as adventure. A great spinning vessel of torment getting the tykes ready for the damnation most of them will richly deserve, all because their minds were permanently twisted by this parade of pony horrors.

There is no way to make this story interesting.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience. To not do this work is to remain trapped in the tedium, loneliness, agitations, and disappointments of a circumscribed life rather than awakening to your higher calling.

I often imagine myself engaged in a slew of activities to transform their destiny; a genie fighting against evil. Wishful thinking perhaps, but the tedium and tension involved in the very process pushes aside such cogitations and I return to a self-centred life of good meals and an air-conditioned room.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I didn't like mundane life.

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died." "From what?" "Boredom.

repetitive dullness and infantile content of profanity

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

This was one of the pleasures of recovery: you opened the door to the pain and gnawing tedium, but joy came in as well. All of it, all of it, brilliant and clean and true.

threatened to bore them. That policy did not make for an active social life.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

How drab people are, especially from the press.

My day-to-day existence is, honestly, a little boring.

Again with the amnesia. This is getting old.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Familiarity makes even the most fascinating figure dull: one would probably be bored with Jupiter Himself if one passed him on the street every day

E de facto bem pode dizer-se que as ideias inesperadas nos vêm porque estávamos à espera delas. São, em grande parte, o resultado conseguido de um carácter, de certas inclinações constantes, de uma ambição tenaz, de uma incessante ocupação com elas. Que tédio, uma perseverança assim!

Wrong theory," Augustus said. "Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

She reflected that the Mad Max movies had been skillfully edited to erase the actual tedium of driving through outback Australia.