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
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer 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
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
“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working.… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? — Douglas Adams 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
(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
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
