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Quotes About Monotony

Oh, how daily life is.
~ Jules Laforgue
Can you imagine founding a cuisine on blueberries? Everyone would be so sick of them within a week, they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with a cuisine based on the blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering sameness of their daily meals.
~ E. Lockhart
The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram.
~ E.M. Forster
Everything seems just alike in these days.
~ E.M. Forster
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
A clean house is the sign of a boring person.
~ Anonymous
he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one trapped underwater, under a Plexiglas floor, while the world moved on, men and women checking in and out of rooms, lugging overstuffed suitcases, the soles of their shoes passing lightly above him.
~ Anthony Doerr
So it was stale time then, day in, day out
~ Anthony Holden
Gray suit, gray face, gray life . . . Alan Blunt seemed to belong to an entirely colorless world.
~ Anthony Horowitz
not that anything very much ever happened.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.
~ Philip Kerr
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.
~ Homaro Cantu
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
~ Powers Boothe
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
~ Caroline Knapp
After becoming an engineer, I worked for a year in Faridabad. I was so bored. I used to live in a one-room apartment, and every night I would come back to a frog in my bathroom.
~ Anubhav Sinha
I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
~ Neville Marriner
Monotonca ba??rarak müÅŸteri çekmeye çal???yorlard?. Seslerinde iÅŸgünü sonuna özgü bir canl?l?k vard?... Eski hayallerin gerçekleÅŸeceÄŸi umudundan kaynaklanan ancak bir yandan da hayatlar?n?n deÄŸiÅŸmeyeceÄŸinin bilinciyle renklenen, sahte bir par?lt?.
~ Frank Herbert
Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.
~ Frank Kafka
Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come eventually, and summer, and they last for a while, but now, looking back, spring and summer seem too short, as if they were not much more than a couple of days, and even on those days, no matter how lovely the day, it still snows occasionally.
~ Franz Kafka
It is always the same, always the same
~ Franz Kafka