Quotes About Mundane

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

The truly experienced person, the refined person, delights in the ordinary.

the Christian life is to be lived in vocation, in the seemingly ordinary walks of life that take up nearly all of the hours of our day. The Christian life is to be lived out in our family, our work, our community, and our church. Such things seem mundane, but this is because of our blindness. Actually, God is present in them—and in us—in a mighty, though hidden, way.

let me remember to pay attention to the ordinary, not just to the extraordinary.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

She could hide in this small, dull life.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Banality is sometimes striking.

We observe few objects really closely. As we walk on the earth, we observe the external events at two or three arms' lengths. If we ride a horse or drive in an automobile, we are further separated from the immediate surround. We see and photograph scenery; our vast world is inadequately described as the landscape. The most intimate object perceived daily is usually the printed page. The small and commonplace are rarely explored.

Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente».

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.

dull and repetitive lifestyle.

anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

I lead a very conventional life.