Quotes About Monotony

Eentonigheid is een vorm van zekerheid, met eentonigheid kun je angst bezweren.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.

I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

And we're back where we started. Beginning to feel like I'm riding a hamster wheel.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

Algunos días detestaba el mar; era monótono e infinito como la ausencia.

Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity--the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.

No existe elección de remedios. Solamente existe uno, uno solo. Una sola cosa hace soportable la monotonía, una luz de eternidad: es la belleza.

Monotonie du mal : rien de nouveau, tout y est équivalent. Rien de réel, tout y est imaginaire. C'est à cause de cette monotonie que la quantité joue un si grand rôle. Beaucoup de femmes (don Juan) ou d'hommes (Célimène), etc. Condamné à la fausse infinité. C'est là l'enfer même.

But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.

dull and repetitive lifestyle.

One becomes weary only of what is new.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.