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Quotes About Monotony

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
~ Franz Kafka
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
~ James McAvoy
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver
Life is first boredom, then fear.
~ Philip Larkin
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
~ John Mayer
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
~ Kiersten White
The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.
~ Rich Mullins
We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of our food. Physically, mentally, and perhaps morally, then, we are depressed, and from my past experience... I know that this depression will increase.
~ Jenny Offill
The trucks roll monotonously onwards, the shouts are monotonous, the falling rain is monotonous. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead men up at the front of the truck, on the body of the little recruit with a wound that is far too big for his hip, it's falling on Kemmerich's grave, and it's falling in our hearts.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up in the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Nichts elender, als Paare zu sehen, über denen die Müdigkeit der Gewohnheit liegt. Verstaubte Liebe; der Küchengarten der Gefühle.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously comes the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up in the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my dear?' 'Anything you do too bloody long.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's a bore, he said out loud. What is, my dear? Anything you do too bloody long.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much
~ Ernest Hemingway
Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren't really unhappy, but worse, who are neither happy nor unhappy; people who are ugly because they're neither ugly nor beautiful; creatures that are dismally neutral, who long without longings as though they're unconscious, unconsciously suffering from being alive.
~ Eugene Ionesco
What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.
~ Angela Carter
The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.
~ Tom Junod
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
~ Joshua Foer
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
~ John Stuart Mill
When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.
~ Vera Lynn