Tedious Life Quotes

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

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

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

I lead such a boring life.

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.