Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.

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

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

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.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

I am most scared of being bored

Beware of creating tedium!

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.