Quotes About Monotony

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders." (p 34 "Spin")

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Wilde's formulation of art's purpose: "[What art] seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Things" in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…

I hate it here... ...Everyday is actually three days, a freezing morning, a blistering day, and a cool night. You need a lot of clothes. And every day is the same day, which is why it's important to hang a calendar. I see why people move here and wake up one day scratching their heads, wondering when they turned forty or what year it is.

If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world.

As a matter of fact, life starts to feel mighty long when all you eat is turkey bacon and egg whites and a side of arugula.

The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always "on the go."

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

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

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

It is always dullest before the yawn.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

in the first place, Majesty, a pyramid is power. It is repression,force,and wealth. But it is just as much: domination of the rabble; the narrowing of its mind; the weakening of its will; monotony; and waste. O my Pharaoh, it is your most reliable guardian. Your secret police. Your army. Your fleet. Your harem. The higher it is, the tinier your subjects will seem. And the smaller your subjects, the more you rise, o Majesty, to your full height.

Ni pisma nema, ni poruke iz daljine. Kao što, nažalost, nema ni?eg lepog ni neobi?nog ni uzbudljivog, nego samo jednoli?an život, bez ?uda i iznena?enja, satkan od prostih i oskudnih doga?aja, neodre?enih i nejasnih, a mu?nih i suvoparnih dužnosti i obaveza.

First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

What do you mean SOS?" "Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.