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Quotes About Monotony

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
~ James Galway
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
~ Norm MacDonald
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
~ Peter Dinklage
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
~ Johnny Knoxville
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
~ Mara Wilson
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
~ Alexis Bledel
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
~ Robert Cormier
War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way of life at once stimulating and completely depressing.
~ Robert E. Merriam
desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat hour after hour. It bored him with its lack of event.
~ Robert Goolrick
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Living the same week a few thousand times and calling it a life. I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.
~ Robin Sharma
Tautology creates a dead, a motionless world.
~ Roland Barthes
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~ Roland Barthes
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
~ George Soros
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
~ Darrell Royal
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
~ Aldous Huxley
Humans] suffer, during their working hours, from the chronic boredom and frustration imposed by the sort of jobs that have to be done in order to satisfy the artificially stimulated demand for the fruits of fully mechanized mass-production.
~ Aldous Huxley
ObiÈ™nuinÈ›a naÈ™te dispreÈ›, iar supravieÈ›uirea pretinde nu atât gesturi imperioase, cât mai degrab? lente, plicticoase È™i chinuitoare. Lumea din afar? este ceea ce ne întâmpin? la trezire, în fiecare diminea?? a vieÈ›ii noastre, nu-i aÈ™a? Locul în care, vrând-nevrând, trebuie s? încerc?m s? obÈ›inem cele necesare traiului. În lumea interioar? nu exist? nici munc?, nici monotonie.
~ Aldous Huxley
La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres llevan vidas tan penosas en el peor de los casos y tan monótonas, pobres y limitadas en el mejor, que el afán de escapar, el ansia de trascender de sí mismo aunque sólo sea por breves momentos es, y ha sido siempre, uno de los principales apetitos del alma.
~ Aldous Huxley
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of
~ Aldous Huxley