Beware of creating tedium!

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines…

— Octavio Paz

“What depresses you most?” I ask. “Tedium. Tedium is far more dangerous than shock. I see no point to words that cower in safety.”…

— Elaine Ambrose

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to…

— Shirley Hazzard

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself,…

— Henry Watson Fowler

“tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)”

— John Connolly

“...it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I…

— James Berardinelli

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty,…

— Dorothy Parker

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's…

— Michael Dirda

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

— Neil Lowe

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

— Arnold Bennett

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that…

— Steven Chu