Quotes About Monotony

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

Poštovani prof. dr. Heideggeru, zanimalo bi me šta Vi mislite pod izrazom 'utapanje u svakidašnjicu'. Kad je došlo do tog utapanja? Gdje ste Vi stajali kad se to dogodilo?

There's this sense, you know: the impossibility of life, the provisional character and everything, the impossibility of finding anchorage, the insecurity, the hand to mouth existence, the terrible things that life does to you, and well, of course, growing is monotonous, so I try not to grow too much.

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most ofthemlabour the greater part oftheir time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedomwhich remains to themso troubles themthat they use every exertion to get rid ofit.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!

È una cosa monotona, il genere umano. I più impiegano la maggior parte del tempo per vivere, e quel poco di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto da indurli a cercare tutti i mezzi per sbarazzarsene. Ah, la sorte dell'uomo.

Es ist ein einförmiges Ding um das Menschengeschlecht.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

But she'd managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

La maggior parte della vita è così monotona che non c'è proprio niente da dirne, e i libri e i discorsi che la descrivono come una cosa interessante sono costretti a calcare la mano,nella speranza di giustificare la propria esistenza.