Tedium Quotes
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Tedium Quotes & Sayings
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(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)
— John Connolly
Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.
— Carl Sagan
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
— Oriana Fallaci
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
— Fernando Pessoa
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 west by tedium.
— Philip Guedalla
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
— James K.A. Smith
Beware of creating tedium!
— Anthony Trollope
Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you
— John Geddes
The most tedious details are the most like dreams.
— Gerhard Roth
Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
We don't actually want our young people to encounter the mysteries of love anyway; best to keep them preoccupied with the tedium of lust instead. The
— Anthony Esolen
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
— Lance Loud
I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.
— Julie Schumacher
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
— Erma Bombeck
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
— Christopher Hitchens
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
— Russell Baker
When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!
— Toba Beta
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
— Billy Corgan
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
— David Foster Wallace
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.
— Thomas Guthrie
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
— Mary Doria Russell
To learn a musical instrument. you had to have a certain tolerance for tedium and failure.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
— Henry David Thoreau
I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
— Alison Croggon
Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
— Andrei Codrescu
Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium extinguishes the light in the soul.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
— Robert Plant
Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.
— Lisa Lutz
Flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.
— Sinclair Lewis
Once in my room I don't have a goddamn clue what to do.
— Kelly Thompson
If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?
— George R R Martin
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.
— Henry Watson Fowler