Quotes About Monotony

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

Now they were all moving to no effect-just moving, just switching things off and switching things on, just picking things up and putting things down and picking things up and stroking the cat and counting the mugs and fighting for air. It seemed that everything they did had already been done and done, and that everything they thought had already been thought and thought, and that this would never end. Excuse me said panic to each of them in turn. They had no mouth and they had to scream.

I abhor the dull routine of existence.

Mi mente se subleva ante el estancamiento. Proporcióneme usted problemas, proporcióneme trabajo, déme los más abstrusos criptogramas o los más intrincados análisis, y entonces me encontraré en mi ambiente. Podré prescindir de estimulantes artificiales. Pero odio la aburrida monotonía de la existencia. Deseo fervientemente la exaltación mental.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

The ordinary life of every day, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid; and if it is so moved, it soon becomes painful.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

First I thought to fill this void that is I, and thereby dispel its insufferable monotony. So let us think of something, for when we think, behold, there is thought, and naught but our thought has existence.

SSDD Same Shit Different Day

There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine

What they did not know was that she chafed at the never-endingness of it. No sooner had she cleaned one surface than it was dirty again.

She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.