Quotes About Monotony

There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.

Being a mother is a little like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again - and it's watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It's humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.

If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

Shows than run for years together make you stagnant.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Same show, same routines, same faces

overly tedious.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny de­tails of ev­ery day do­ing the same tasks over and over.

There were jobs so bor­ing, you'd find ways to crip­ple your­self so you couldn't work.

With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like clean­ing up af­ter a stranger ev­ery day. Wash­ing dish­es all day. Feed­ing a stranger's chil­dren. Mow­ing a lawn. All day. Paint­ing hous­es. Year af­ter year.

We were all so wor­ried about our worst fears, squeez­ing frogs, eat­ing worms, poi­sons, as­bestos, we nev­er con­sid­ered how bor­ing life would be even if we suc­ceed­ed and got a good job.

People in the outside world said something stupid with their every breath, and when they didn't talk their radios filled the gap with the copied voices of people singing the same songs over and over.

Globe-trotting is just the chance to feel bored more places, faster

My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand. No, everybody

Nós todos assistimos aos mesmos programas de TV. Ouvimos as mesmas coisas no rádio, conversamos sobre os mesmos assuntos uns com os outros. Não há mais novidades. É tudo mais do mesmo. Reprises.

A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.

Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits.