Quotes About Tedium

I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I didn't. I carried back and forth, from north to south and east to west, the weariness of having had a past, the disquiet of living a present, and the tedium of having to have a future. And yet I struggle so hard to remain entirely in the present, killing inside me the past and the future.

But someone afflicted by tedium feels himself the prisoner of a futile freedom, in a cell of infinite size.

A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today – huge confusions with no point and no truth, huge confusions…

Those who have Gods don't have tedium. Tedium is the lack of a mythology.

I watch myself. I am a witness to myself. My feelings parade past some unrecognizable gaze of mine like things external. Everything about me bores me. Everything, right down to its mysterious roots, has taken on the color of my tedium.

Tedium is not a sickness brought on by the boredom of having nothing to do but the worse sickness of feeling that nothing is worth doing. And thus, the more one has to do the worse the tedium

Lo absurdo nos salva de llegar, pese al tedio, a aquel estado del alma donde comienza por sentirse la dulce furia del sueño.

to say that, or something similar, might lend colour to the tedium, the way a child draws something then clumsily colours it in, blurring the edges, but to me it's just words echoing around the cellars of thought.

I'd like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression of continual tedium in a sensual nightmare.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

Las grandes melancolías, las tristezas llenas de tedio no pueden existir sino en un ambiente confortable y de lujo sobrio.

It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary.

Reading the newspaper is always unpleasant from an aesthetic point of view, and often from a moral point of view as well, even for those who don't worry much about morality. Reading about the effects of wars and revolutions – there's always one or the other in the news – doesn't make us feel horror but tedium.

Only unhappiness raises us up — and the tedium we draw from that unhappiness is as heraldic as being the descendant of distant heroes.

Only Tedium, which is a form of aloofness, and Art, which is a form of scorn, gild our [life] with a semblance of contentment.

The great melancholies, the sadnesses filled with tedium, can exist only in an atmosphere of comfort and sober luxury.

As guerras e as revoluções — há sempre uma ou outra em curso — chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio.

E assim escondo-me atrás da porta, para que a Realidade, quando entra, me não veja. Escondo-me debaixo da mesa, donde, subitamente, prego sustos à Possibilidade. De modo que desligo de mim, como aos dois braços de um amplexo, os dois grandes tédios que me cingem- o tédio de poder viver só o Real, e o tédio de poder conceber só o Possível.

My least favorite aspect of shopping is shopping.

I want bigger fights. Amir Khan doesn't want to listen to me. Why? It's getting boring.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

all horrors are dulled by routine.

At any rate, it was boring to be in ill-health, doubly boring to talk about it.