Quotes About Monotony

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

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.

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's listlessness.

Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a sort of twilight sleep in which they're conscious of nothing but the daily-round of work, family life, darts at the pub, exercising the dog, bringing home the supper, beer, etc, etc

Their combined ages were two hundred and sixty-three years. None of them had ever been out of England, fought in a war, been in prison, ridden a horse, travelled in an aeroplane, got married, or given birth to a child. There seemed no reason why they should not continue in the same style until they died. Year in, year out, nothing ever happened in the Comstock family.

Each night passed with a devastating sameness.

Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien.

I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

Whenever you listen to a CD or an album, it gets tiresome hearing the same thing over and over and over again.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

There ain't much to be said about walking across Kekropia aside from the boredom of it.

Her life seems to be nothing but routine, no adventure.

Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom.

The clue's always, always, buried deep in the boredom... Where do you feel most bored? Go there.

I sit in the coffee shop waiting for night and I watch the same people scratch their asses at the same tables behind the same windows. I think of Camus, lovely and brittle, and the gunman on the sands and know I'll be here tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow with these lovely blue-gray sharks dwarfing the evening with their self-important air, looking into the murky bottoms of coffee cups and smoking my never-ending cigarettes.

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.