Quotes About Monotony

Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no convictions and no enthusiasm. Just another Sunday evening.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

This came to be a ritual, more and more meaningless as it was repeated, but a ritual which nevertheless gave his life the only shape it now had.

Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

Sunday was like Monday. If you wanted to live on the sea, that was how you lived, and it was a good life. But nothing changed, and you didn't know how many years had passed until it came to you that you were tired at the end of the day, and that was the only way you knew you were old. (The Queen of the Ivsira)

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.

Plictiseala? O convalescenta incurabila.

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Cine a acceptat marile poveri ale vieÅ£ii iubeÅŸte mai mult tragedia,decât transifgurarea.Teama de monotonia clipelor sublime este mai mare decât teama de pr?buÅŸire.Exist? mult? bucurie în neliniÅŸte ÅŸi mult? voluptate în suferin??,din moment ce omului îi poate fi team? de orice mântuire ca de o mântuire înainte de vreme.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

Pero si él pudiera acostumbrarse al hecho de que todos los días son una absurda repetición del anterior, a estar siempre con la misma persona, a la idea de que únicamente el vuelo de un pequeño corazón puede colorear el mundo..., si fuera capaz, entonces, quizás, algo podría ir cambiando, poco a poco.

To any one with artistic taste, poetic feeling, and refined perceptions, there is something inexpressibly sad in passing from a Catholic to a Protestant country, it is like passing from sunshine into mist, from mountain variety and beauty into fens, well-drained, cut into square fields, but intolerably monotonous.

The affair ran the usual course. Fever, boredom, trapped.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.