Tiresome Quotes

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Yesterday, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Running, Long, Degrees

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• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

  Robert Wyatt

  Records, Pressure, Come Up

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• All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

  Voltaire

  Style, Kind

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• Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, History, Vacant

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  Samuel Beckett

  Regret, Long, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.158, Grove Press

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Attention, Firsts

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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Forever, Understanding

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

  Maimonides

  Reality, Men, Able

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.296, Moses Maimonides

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• I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Too Much, Civility

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• The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wonder Woman, Saying Yes, Worn

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Speech, Way, Beats

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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• For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Philosophy, Moving, Destiny

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

  Jenny Slate

  Sensitive Person, People, Joy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

  Stella Benson

  Fall, Men, Race

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• There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  William Gaddis

  Reading, Standing Alone, Audience

  William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.89, Penguin

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• I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.

  Judith Orloff

  Dream, Sweet, Communication

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• Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Psychosis, Violence, Illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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