Quotes About Monotony

Life gets tedious," she quoted. "Not sometimes. All the time.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

I got very bored with the music business.

Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.

Wassertorstrasse one week was much like another. Our leaky stuffy little attic smelt of cooking and bad drains. When the living-room stove was alight, we could hardly breathe; when

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.

All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.

I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Orele treceau greu, noroc ca era de mult stricat ceasul, nu se auzea ticaitul monoton care sa le aminteasca de trecerea anevoioasa a timpului.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

And then you notice the days are going by really fast. And they're all starting to look alike. And then you start to feel like this can't be it. This can't be all. This can't be . . . you know . . . a whole life. There has to be more.

Amaro e noia la vita, altro mai nulla; e fango è il mondo.

Many of us are afraid of risk and prefer the bland, the predictable, and the repetitive. This explains the overwhelming sense of boredom that is a defining characteristic of our age.

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." When she

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.