Quotes About Monotony

Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation

There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

I drove through the suburbs, where all the houses looked identical, one variation of another of the same thing. I said to myself, I'd rather fire myself from a cannon, pick up the shit of elephants and eat it, suffocate inside Houdini's water tank, lie beneath the running horses, or sodomise a big cat in a cage and pay the consequences than get trapped in these suburbs of cardboard, gossip, and conformity.

I also seem to recall that whatever my job was, I wasn't very good at it. I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a gun and I didn't like what I saw at the end of it: a loan for a car, a mortgage for a flat, weekly shopping, trips to the cinema and living for the weekends. They were all metaphors for a set of handcuffs, chaining me to the monotony of a job I hated,

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

There are cities that have no ... I don't know what to call it, an identity perhaps. A sense of being someplace different. Lots of those in the Empire. Very old cities with lots of history, but one day is much like the next.

The treadmill is a corollary to the suburb and the autotropolis: a device with which to go nowhere in places where there is nowhere to go.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

There is no greater bore than perfection.

Possibly this is one more version of disappearing into your life, the way career telephone company bigwigs, overdutiful parents and owners of wholesale lumber companies are said to do and never know it. You simply reach a point at which everything looks the same but nothing matters much. There's no evidence you're dead, but you act that way.

the monotony of quiet creativity, imagination fueled by routine and isolation

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Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.