Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women… — George Jung Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to… — Jay H. Lehr Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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