Tedium Quotes

37 Tedium quotes by 35 unique authors

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the… — Philip Guedalla
Tedium is the bane of immortality. — Neil Lowe
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with… — Michael Ende
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud
Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and… — Jay H. Lehr
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only… — Aldous Huxley
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty. — Thomas Guthrie
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an… — Ambrose Bierce
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. — Billy Corgan
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished… — Arthur Helps
The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal.… — Christopher Meloni
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. — Robert Plant
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has… — Rob Sheffield
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught… — Octavio Paz
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck

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