Quotes About Tedium

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

pugilist who won every match was dull, she

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

i am always bored. (gwendolen harleth)

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

I saw Borges very few times. The first time was in Paris, when I was a journalist. I went to interview him and was so impressed I could not speak. I remember one of the questions I asked him was What do you think of politics? He gave me an answer I have always remembered. He told me it was una de las formas del tedio (one of the forms of tedium).

In other words, nearly all the inhabitants of these outwardly disconnected empires turn out at last to be tenaciously inter-related; love and hate, friendship and enmity, too, becoming themselves much less clearly defined, more often than not showing signs of possessing characteristics that could claim, to say the least, not a little in common; while work and play merge indistinguishably into a complex tissue of pleasure and tedium.

But I should never have had patience to sit all night upon that bench in the House of Commons. How men can do it! They mustn't read. They can't think because of the speaking. It doesn't do for them to talk. I don't believe they ever listen. It isn't in human nature to listen hour after hour to such platitudes. I believe they fall into a habit of half-wakeful sleeping, which carries them through the hours; but even that can't be pleasant

I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes

Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Control isn't the only factor in productivity. Employees on an assembly line, doing the same tired thing day after day, certainly can feel in control of their work processes. But the brain-numbing tedium can become a source of stress.

When you flip hamburgers, sit at a computer all day, unpack and shelve merchandise from China year after year, you manage the tedium better if you have a shallow inner life, one you can escape through booze, drugs, sex, media, or other low level addictive behaviors. Easier to keep sane if your inner life is shallow. School, thought Harris the great American schoolman, should prepare ordinary men and women for lifetimes of alienation. Can you say he wasn't fully rational?

Virtue is admirable, but boring.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's listlessness.

Each night passed with a devastating sameness.

He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came in through the windows, settling on the furniture with a leaden pallor, sending the mirrors into mourning at light's farewell ...

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.