Quotes About Monotony

This feels like Groundhog Day," Phoenix said as Riley parked at the curb outside his parents' house. "Groundhog Day?" "Haven't you seen that movie? My mother has a copy. We watched it the night I got home. Bill Murray's in it. I wasn't interested enough to pay a whole lot of attention. I was mostly indulging her. But he lives the same day over and over again.

YOU DULL ME!

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion.

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department

It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.

Terroir is a way by which man uses soil, vine, and climate to express a trait in wine. Terroir isn't a hierarchy for quality, but rather a mantle for the sense of identity. This notion is a sensitive one in times of changing fashions. Wine is diversity, and terroir is a real way to escape the monotony of daily life.

Repetition dulls even the keenest senses

Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep.

And Darcy was so perfect, he was just plain boring.

Rien n'est plus monotone que les illusions d'originalité chez des hommes à qui l'on a inculqué, dès l'enfance, le préjugé du « génie créateur »

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?

Why was it that at every grown-up function, the exact same conversation had to take place? Sometimes Emily felt as if she could hand out scripts, to save everybody the trouble of thinking, except that there would be no point, because they weren't thinking--they were just saying the same things they'd said the last time.

week days pent up in lath and

these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster — tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?

Admittedly, the ride can be pleasant if you don't mind the rhythmic repetition of a never-ending Maypole dance. If I came home now, I'd hit the merry-go-round at one of the annual, frenzied peaks. And, like so many others, I could forget the existence of anything but the ride: sleep-walking through the low spots, and always looking toward the next peak.

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

I think audiences were somewhere fed up with watching the same Saas-Bahu soaps all the time. I've been part of one of them.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!