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Quotes About Monotony

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Peace has brought me many pleasures, but nothing as powerful as that passion for survival in wartime, that faith in love, and that sense of absolutes. It often strikes me with horror that peace is really extremely monotonous. During the terrible moments of war one longs for peace with a passion that is painful to bear. But in peacetime one should never, even for an instant, long for war!
~ Guy Sajer
Man is so used to thinking visually that I almost forgot the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of wood and glass in its low-studded monotony as though I saw it.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
çünkü s?k?c?, tekdüze bir yaÅŸam, bilinmeyene kar?? daha büyük özlemler doÄŸurur.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.
~ David Draiman
Touring can be quite a dull life.
~ Sean Lock
Touring can be repetitive at times.
~ Alison Mosshart
There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.
~ Tommy Cooper
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
~ Peter Hook
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
~ Rupert Holmes
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
~ Paulo Coelho
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
~ Faith Popcorn
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~ Charles Kuralt
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~ Ella Maillart
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
~ Mason Cooley
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
~ D.T. Suzuki
say…same shit, different day.
~ Shelly Laurenston
You clock in to the clock. You clock out to the clock. You come home to the clock. You eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock . . . You do that for forty years of your life, you retire, what do they fucking give you? A clock!
~ Simon Garfield
The beauty of FIFA's business is that it's a monopoly. There is only one World Cup (nobody has ever credibly attempted to start a rival event) and only one global soccer association.
~ Simon Kuper
Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
~ Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
At least poppy never boared you. Half the marriages i know are temple to boredom
~ May Sarton
Weekdays revolved on a sameness wheel. They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday's rough draft. Saturday, however, always broke the mold and dared to be different.
~ Maya Angelou
The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.
~ Beatrice Sparks