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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. -- Robert South
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. -- Robert Plant
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
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 a tiresome labor is immense. -- Arthur Helps
Beware of creating tedium! -- Anthony Trollope
I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again. -- Alison Croggon
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty. -- Thomas Guthrie
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. -- Oriana Fallaci
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
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
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship -- you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs! -- Tobsha Learner
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension. -- John Carroll
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. -- David Foster Wallace
The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement. -- Shirley Hazzard
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition. -- Robert Plant
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 authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens. -- Ambrose Bierce
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk. -- Donald C. Peattie
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 just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. -- Aldous Huxley
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil. -- Sinclair Lewis
Tedium is the bane of immortality. -- Neil Lowe
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. -- Billy Corgan
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. -- Lance Loud
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. -- 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 simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. -- George Combe
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. -- Gayle Forman
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. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. -- Christopher Meloni
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone. -- Paul Theroux
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 dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten. -- Rob Sheffield
When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium. -- Emile Zola
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. -- Peggy Noonan
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. -- Victor Hugo
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. -- Anne Tyler
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. -- David Foster Wallace
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. -- Fernando Pessoa
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? -- Douglas Adams
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity -- Christopher Hitchens
Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh? -- Paul Russell
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 tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. -- Saul Bellow

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