Quotes About Mundane

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born

I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.

Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

And yet what we call mundane is, in some very important ways, significant in God's school of preparation.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization

But rituals are important to the men who run prisons, and nothing gets their adrenaline pumping like an execution. Their little lives are mundane and monotonous, but occasionally the world tunes in when it's time to kill a killer. No effort at heightened drama is to be missed.

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

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

The thing is, the world is an amazing place, really. We are the ones who have trivialized everything, we are the ones who have stripped the magic from the world and left it a terribly mundane sort of place.

Agnes cannot see the point of sweeping the floor. It just gets dirty again. Cooking food seems similarly pointless. She cooks it, they eat it and then, later on, they eat more.

Mens de samme trivielle tingene skjer daglig, roterer verden med store omdreininger.

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.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

My life has become a boring pop song and everyone is singing along.

All my life flashed before my eyes...it was really boring.

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

Hoy fue un día feliz; solo rutina.