Tedium Quotations

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

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 simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

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 terror and pain.

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

Beware of creating tedium!

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

How have we managed to dodge the rather obvious point that happiness only makes sense by contrast with sadness - or perhaps with tedium - and that uncertainty, the very essence of imperfection, is our default position?

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?