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Quotes About Everydayness

I suffer from everyday life.
~ Italo Calvino
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
~ Walker Percy
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
~ Walker Percy
What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
~ Walker Percy
Everydayness" is a key concept in Existentialism. It describes the way we get so immersed in the routines and roles of our daily lives that we never experience full consciousness of who we are and what choices are available to us.
~ Daniel Klein
Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.
~ Don Elium
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
~ Barbara Kruger
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
~ James Russell Lowell
But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Everydayness perfumes the depth of life, the huge ocean where all are interconnected, and makes your life mature. Then a new life arises from the depth and appears on the surface. So, by taking care of everydayness, you don't make just the surface mature; you also make the depth of your life mature.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to say: Have 98% of Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everydayness that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them?
~ Walker Percy
A memory can be banished, even indefinitely, deported from consciousness by the relentless everydayness of running a successful magazine, mothering a son, and burying a husband. A human being, though, is a different thing entirely.
~ Chris Cleave
people have an instinct to be useful and can't handle the relentless everydayness of life unless they work hard. It is sheer idleness that deadens the soul and causes neuroses.
~ Jim Harrison
and i am consumed with love for all of it the everydayness of bravery of hate of fear of tragedy of death and birth and hope
~ Lucille Clifton
la realidad es mucho más vulgar, más mediocre, más chata.
~ Mario Benedetti