Quotes About Monotony

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Nowhere have I encountered such a dull and monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

The treadmill and the damn elliptical - they get so boring to me.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Routine wears down vigilance.

An office is a machine for dying.

Sparring gowns, battle gowns, executioner's gowns—it didn't matter. They were all dull dull dull!

Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

When TV came, it was a very strong medium. It reached out to so many people and it could have made difference but we got into mundaneness of it.

Everything is strange the first time you do it, Moth. Second time makes it normal. Third time it's boring.

When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

they] nurtured a secret love for the cowards, for without them their courage would soon erode into a trivial, monotonous grind admired by no-one.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.