Quotes About Monotony

Considering the hazard of monotony…the most serious fault in our zoning laws lies in the fact that they permit an entire area to be devoted to a single use.

No special form of city blight is nearly so devastating as the Great Blight of Dullness.

stupefied boredom.

Being a lifeguard was boring. Bo-ring. It was an indoor pool and it's so hot and humid in there. All you can do is sit there - you can't have music on because you need to pay attention and not be distracted. So you're just sat there, you're looking at people swim up and down, up and down. That was so boring.

As soon as I walk outside, I get depressed. If I see a dog, I'll get upset about how much it must suck to be on a leash. I'll get on a bus and tear up at the thought of how the driver has to go back and forth on the same street for eight hours in mind-numbing traffic.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Work is the province of cattle.

Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

The Grand Hotel Milano had become a five-star hamster wheel.

a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling.

Walking in circles your whole life just gets scuff marks on your shoes.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.  Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui