“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
“...it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
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
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. — David Foster Wallace 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
If kids aren't allowed to experience monotony and tedium, it's unlikely they will value the times they are entertained. — Ulrika Jonsson 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
'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
“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
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
“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
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
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even… — Danny Baker 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
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
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
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler 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
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
