Quotes About Tedium

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

So it was stale time then, day in, day out

Oddly, recipes came with warnings that to eat reheated cabbage was fatal. "Twice cooked cabbage is death," an ancient adage popular in the Renaissance, referred both to that belief and to the tedium of listening to a comment repeated over and over.

Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet

Ed ecco perché lui se ne stava tutto il giorno in campagna. Solo, tra gli alberi e con la distesa sterminata del mare sotto gli occhi, come da un'infinita lontananza, nel fruscio lungo e lieve di quegli alberi, nel borboglio cupo e lento di quel mare s'era abituato a sentire la vanità di tutto e il tedio angoscioso della vita.

THIS is all desperately tedious

History tells us that some things never change. One of these things is: history bores a lot of people.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

El yo puede ser muy aburrido.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

Wat een gezeur op die formulieren, hè? Maar ik moet doen alsof ik het hardop voorlees. Enzovoort, enzovoort. - Crowley

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

Never in my life had I seen such a boring movie. I chewed nine consecutive sticks of gum, to remind myself I was still alive.