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Quotes About Mundane

I couldn't see beyond the walls of our apartment or the few miles between home and school. Every day was about getting through it. Every weekend was about getting back to school, where there could be some structure and my routines.
~ Sara Zarr
I am pro plaque. New York is lousy with them and I love how spotting them can jazz up even the most mundane errand.
~ Sarah Vowell
His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.
~ John Connolly
And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.
~ John Connolly
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
~ Dorothy Allison
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
~ Michel Faber
Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)
~ Jules Laforgue
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
~ David Byrne
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
~ Jules Laforgue
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
~ Laurie Foos
Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.
~ Chelsea Manning
La maggior parte della vita è così monotona che non c'è proprio niente da dirne, e i libri e i discorsi che la descrivono come una cosa interessante sono costretti a calcare la mano,nella speranza di giustificare la propria esistenza.
~ Edward Morgan Forster
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
~ Elaine Dundy
dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of
~ Elena Ferrante
V?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
~ Anton Chekhov
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Most green witches find the use of the word "magic" to be irrelevant. Magic implies something out of the ordinary. But to a green witch the mundane is magical. When she senses, responds to, and gently nudges the flows of natural energy around her, nothing could be more natural. She's performing natural magic.
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.
~ Alain de Botton
When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
~ Emma Roberts
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
~ Frederick Buechner
I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes.
~ Ty Segall