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Quotes About Mundane

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.
~ Diana Gabaldon
As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
~ Bill Callahan
I'm a very normal guy. Like, I'm an average dude.
~ Jason Derulo
I'm just a normal dude.
~ Stipe Miocic
I'm just a regular dude.
~ Josh Rosen
While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.
~ John Oldham
I'm incredibly dull and I very rarely leave the house. I don't go out, I don't drink, I'm really boring.
~ Paul Kaye
I'm actually a rather dull man.
~ Keith Allen
A lot of guys man, they are dull and dry.
~ Aljamain Sterling
In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.
~ Miranda Lambert
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
~ Ismail Kadare
Wojna to troch? rze?nia, a troch? rutyna i nie ma co czepia? si? zanadto szczegó?ów.
~ Italo Calvino
Since God has left the fingerprints of his wisdom everywhere, since there is no place where God does not furnish us with raw materials for godly thinking, Christians should be seized with a rambunctious curiosity to ponder his works, both the majestic and the mundane. The task of wisdom is joyfully to describe and investigate all God's works. We may not be Solomons in insight, but we can gratefully examine the same data.
~ Unknown
I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.
~ Unknown
This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.
~ Dana Gioia
Fostering magical thinking, the chivalric romance yields a space-time in which the marvelous co-exists at all times with mundane routines. Its magic is able to envision the invisible, to endow the amorphous with palpable shape, and to place illusion and reality on the same level. Concurrently, the romance reminds us that it is essential to value the magical realm's irreducible alterity and inscrutability, rather than attempt to tame it by rationalizing its wonders.
~ Unknown
They spoke without much fluency about a minor universe of events that affected neither of them: the vagaries of neighborhood life, people they both knew but didn't much care about.
~ Daniel Alarcon
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
~ Harvey Pekar
There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.
~ Louise Doughty
Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane.
~ Louise Penny
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
~ Robin Hobb
Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had to be scrutinized afresh every minute of every day. No; in order to free ourselves from the mundane it is essential that we delegate much of our interpretation of the world to that lower area of the mind that deals with the presumed, the assumed, the probable.
~ Diane Setterfield
These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.
~ Don DeLillo