Quotes About Monotony

Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.

Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how DEADLY monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals.

a few miles outside Culiacán, the monotony is broken by screaming. A lone voice repeats the words over and over, like a siren: ¡la migra, la migra!

La desdicha, como el dolor físico, iguala los minutos. Los días se convierten en el mismo día, los actos en el mismo acto y las personas en un sólo personaje inútil.

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.

finally realized that my fear was boring. Mind you, my fear had always been boring to everybody else, but it wasn't until mid-adolescence that it became, at last, boring even to me. My fear became boring to me, I believe, for the same reason that fame became boring to Jack Gilbert: because it was the same thing every day.

Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day.

El miedo es aburrido

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro,The set gray life, and apathetic end.

A prison is a prison, he says. Whatever you fill the time with.

the same old choirs of hours

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

I'm a bit done with weddings. There are so many and I'm so bored of them.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.