Quotes About Monotony

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

Routines can be a rut.

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

The legions of the unjazzed

FOR THE SHORTEST month, drab February can last for ever.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.

I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.

One thing I hate is going to a beach - they all look the same to me!

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril.

I sat in airport hell wondering once again why there is nothing to do in airports. Why hasn't some enterprising genius yet realized all us bored ticket holders would adore, flock to, pay hard cash for any diversions that lasted longer than a cruise through the magazine racks or dull necktie store?

I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take - in a word, a pain in the neck.

Routine can drop you so deep in a hole that you can't dig out, and you can't live in a hole your entire life.

Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.