Quotes About Monotony

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

To wear brown and grey things every day, the same clothes, for months, it's quite boring after a while.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom and the repetition of his web; but Eppie called him away from his weaving, and made him think all its pauses a holiday, reawakening his senses with her fresh life, even to the old winter-flies that came crawling forth in the early spring sunshine, and warming him into joy because she had joy.

i am always bored. (gwendolen harleth)

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Oh? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Habit is a great deadener.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

A new car in every driveway. Every house had a little lawn out front, and every blade of grass on each lawn was trimmed down to the exact same height. Some of the ladies had flower beds and even the flowers all looked alike, something small and pink. There wasn't a person out on the streets, which made sense seeing as there were no sidewalks—the lawns came all the way out to the road. It gave me the creeps. Each

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

She opens her eyes, says: Stop lying. She says she hopes she'll never know anything, anything in the world, the way you do. She says: I don't want to know anything the way you do, with that death-derived certainty, that hopeless monotony, the same every day of your life, every night, and that deadly routine of lovelessness.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

De gewenning zou ons hebben gevoerd naar dat roemloze maar ook ramploze einde dat het leven bewaart voor degenen die de langzame afstomping door slijtage niet afwijzen.

And there I was, trudging through the same old nowhere, day after day, always wanting to slow down, to sit down, to lie down, with my father walking on ahead, no doubt a little desperate, as he had every right to be.