Quotes About Monotony

By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night they're full of a meaningless lack of it.

Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla. El cazador de leones no tiene aventuras más allá del tercer león. Para mi cocinero monótono, una escena de bofetadas en la calle tiene siempre algo de apocalipsis modesto. Quien no ha salido nunca de Lisboa viaja al infinito en el tranvía cuando va a Bemfica77 y, si un día va a Cintra,78 siente que ha ido a Marte.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak.

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

I know hotel life sounds good but, believe me, it grows old when you have eaten the menu ten times over and you know you've stayed too long when you're on first-name terms with the staff.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I'm terrified of routine.

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of 'Breaking Bad.'

It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks.

Cuánta desolación. La claridad azul remachaba en el alma la monotonía de toda nuestra vida, cavilaba hedionda, taciturna.

all horrors are dulled by routine.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected

He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: Fine.

This was the eighteenth day in a row that the special was Mushroom Surprise. It was called Mushroom Surprise because it would have been a surprise if anybody had ever ordered it. No one ever did—except Louis, of course. That's why they'd had it for eighteen days. There was always plenty left over.