Tedium Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

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
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He… — Anne Lamott
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? — Douglas Adams
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence… — Paulo Coelho
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… — David Foster Wallace
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. — David Foster Wallace
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a… — Unknown Author
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark… — Christopher Hitchens
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such… — George Combe

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