Quotes About Monotony

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

The days are long and quiet. They accumulate. There is no end to them. Picard walks the lanes around his fields. He broods. He writes—long, long books about great men and great deeds. Wine is made, and drunk. Winter comes, then spring, then harvest, then another deep cold winter. The cycle is endless. The huge clock ticks in the hall, eating time. His mind goes around in circles. What shall I do, now? Where do I go? Who am I?

The days since then have been a timeless fuzz. I feel time pass but nothing actually seems to happen.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

You plot, daily. Face down circumstance. Measure out your life with...not coffee spoons--pills. Line them up with breakfast, lunch, supper. Never mind mermaids, and lilacs in bloom, and all that stuff. He hadn't a clue.

The cowardly love we all have of freedom - which if it were given to us we would all repudiate as being too new and strange - is the irrefutable proof of how our slavery weighs upon us. Even I, who have just expressed my desire to have a hut or a cave where I could be free from the monotony of being myself, would I really dare to go off to this hut or cave, knowing and understanding that, since the monotony exists in me alone, I would never be free of it?

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

Too much anthropos makes the world a dull hole.

Hell isn't other people. It's other people telling the same story for the twentieth time.

Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness.

Every single one of the letters having been identical.

Mi sono sentito anch'io sull'orlo della noia, pervaso dalla malinconia degli amanti, quando tranne le scopate non succede più niente.

My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.

fortuna y el amor mueren cuando se hacen rutina.

a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

yes, just another monsoon day out there in the Big City …

She looked at the faces of the off-shifting workers, gray and featureless as paper handkerchiefs.