Quotes About Monotony

So much of the day was pointless repetitions, stacking things up and then knocking them down so you could pick them up again, driving back and forth over the same roads.

What can one figure out in the context and concept of human nature that if one says, I eat an apple every day, and even nothing happens?

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Huye de la ciudad. ¡El tedio urbano! — ¡carne triste y espíritu villano!—.

Una tarde parda y fría de invierno. Los colegiales estudian. Monotonía de la lluvia en los cristales.

El desierto] Es como una mujer [...] Seduce, atrae... Cuando lo ves por la primera vez, el desierto ofrece muchas tentaciones y luego te las va negando lentamente, repite la misma oferta, cada día te da otra vez más, casi con desperación, lo que ya te ha dado ayer. Siempre igual en su monotonía. Y uno empieza a darse cuenta de que realmente jamás se entregará

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

Many Formula One races last two hours, are really boring and nothing happens.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Advocates of truth.?Truth is least likely to find advocates not when it is dangerous to speak the truth, but when it is boring to do so.

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.

El yo puede ser muy aburrido.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.

We live in an era in which tomatoes and fudgesicles taste pretty much the same.

teacher droned on and on, lecturing

Per la prima volta fin dall'infanzia andai a dormire senza affliggermi per la mia esistenza vuota e insignificante, e mi addormentai senza disperarmi per la giornata appena trascorsa, che era solo una ripetizione della precedente e non sarebbe stata diversa nemmeno il giorno dopo.

I don't remember that school day much, because why would I? It was normal. Normal is like looking out a car window. Things pass by, this and that and this and that, without much significance. You don't register such hours; they're habitual, like brushing your teeth.

Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.