It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
“...it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“What depresses you most?” I ask. “Tedium. Tedium is far more dangerous than shock. I see no point to words that cower… — Elaine Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy,… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud 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
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
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
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce 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
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin 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
“tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order,… — John Champlin Gardner Jr 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
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz 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
'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
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where… — Molly Haskell 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
“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
“A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for… — Fernando Pessoa 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
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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