Quotes About Monotony

we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

You know how it is--you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff, you're a 'ride man

Work went on monotonously, and our constant hunger was wrenching. Rice powder and bran, which I sometimes roasted in an attempt to give it some flavor, had torn my insides to shreds. One morning I didn't have the strength to get up, and no one came to see what had happened to me. Everyone was so used to having people just disappear.

The monotony stirs many bitter recollections

As the months went by, I learned to confuse routine with normality.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

Alles ist jeden Tag tagtäglich eine Wiederholung von Wiederholungen.

Aber irgendwie, irgrendwo ist das Abenteuer weg. Jetzt sucht man Ausflüchte und schreibt halt Stücke oder konstruiert eine Prosa, die die Leute langweilt, weil sie sagen Das ist mir zu blöd, drei Seiten ein Satz.

Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

Recreation, which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.

All the days are nothing but the same day repeating itself—or rather, since it is always the same day, it is incorrect to speak of repetition; a continuous present, an identity, an everlastingness—such words as these would better convey the idea.

la conciencia del paso del tiempo, que, ante la monotonía ininterrumpida, corre el riesgo de perderse y que está tan estrechamente emparentada y ligada a la conciencia de la vida que, cuando la una se debilita, es inevitable que la otra sufra también un considerable debilitamiento. Se

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

supunerea fata de legamantul de a crede numai probabilul, mediocrul, banalul si ceea ce este sarac in semnificatii, de a renunta la tot ce e strain si insemnat si de a reduce la obisnuit tot ce e neobisnuit. Existau doar... orizonturi de o ingustime apasatoare si pustiul nesfarsit al rutinei.

O disco tá tocando de novo, já ouvi esse pedaço. - É que ele parece assim todo igual. Que nem chuva.

el crítico social Laurence Scott acierta de pleno cuando describe la existencia moderna hiperconectada como una existencia en la que "un momento puede resultar extrañamente monótono si existe únicamente en sí mismo.

endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone

im fucking bored