Quotes About Routine

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe

We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary. We actually work at destroying our miracles. ...

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.

The opposite of passion is not virtue but routine. - Daphne with her Thighs in Bark

In the late seventies, I would have lunch every day with one or two friends in the cafeteria of the graduate center at Cambridge University, where I was studying.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Real life is actually a lot of boring things with occasional spikes of interest. Eddie Izzard

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not go beyond picturing her usual life in a new setting. She could not figure herself as anywhere but in a drawing-room, diffusing elegance as a flower sheds perfume.

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?

the only cheap life was a dull life.

To me the only death is monotony.

To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

But Archer had found himself held fast by habit, by memories, by a sudden startled shrinking from new things. Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk.

Yesterday her fancy had fluttered free pinions above a choice of occupations; now she had to drop to the level of the familiar routine, in which moments of seeming brilliancy and freedom alternated with long hours of subjection.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.

She closed her eyes an instant, and the vacuous routine of the life she had chosen stretched before her like a long white road without dip or turning: it was true she was to roll over it in a carriage instead of trudging it on foot, but sometimes the pedestrian enjoys the diversion of a short cut which is denied to those on wheels.

Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned. They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast. Lily had never seen her when she was not cuirassed in shining black, with small tight boots, and an air of being packed and ready to start; yet she never started.

They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.