Quotes About Tedium

Perhaps they are worse than evil - they are bored.

And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my dear?' 'Anything you do too bloody long.

It's a bore, he said out loud. What is, my dear? Anything you do too bloody long.

All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.

for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

I can be fairly boring.

The studio can be quite tedious.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

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

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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Sixteenth-century litigation combined the qualities of tedium, hardship, brutality, and injustice that tested character and endurance, with the element of pure chance that appealed to the gambler, the fear of defeat and ruin, and the hope of victory and humiliation of the enemy. It had everything that war can offer except the delights of shedding blood.

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.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

So great is my tedium, so overwhelming the horror of being alive, that I cannot imagine what could possibly serve as a palliative, an antidote, a balm, a source of oblivion.

I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me. I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers.

Yes, tedium is boredom with the world, the malaise of living, the weariness of having lived; in truth, tedium is the feeling in one's flesh of the endless emptiness of things.