Quotes About Mundane

There was a fantasy aspect to our time together that I don't think prepared us for some of the mundane daily struggles life has in store.

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane.

The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary.

Wait, it gets duller.

Unromantic as Monday morning.

For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.

There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

From a distance, the solid ground of marriage has a way of looking mundane and exotic at the same time.

The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way.

he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. 

but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young

Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.

she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.

Silenus returns to himself in that process of allowing the world to rush in once more, much like the return of the senses following orgasm. Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.

Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relatively stable, against a backdrop of normal, everyday experience. This, of course, is one of the features of anxiety and panic that make them suck so bad.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.