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Quotes About Monotony

Monotony One monotonous day follows another monotonous day, without change. The same things happen, then happen again. The same moments approach, then grow distant. A month passes and brings another month. Anyone can guess what's coming after: all the tedious events from the day before, until tomorrow looks nothing like tomorrow.
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.
~ Unknown
Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons in the fire, to humiliation and hopeless longing, to the grey road of uniform days. To live in spite of it, to live on as best she could, with her two warring natures: one that willed, no-one knew how far - one that could let itself be bound any time and anywhere. To live and lie and listen her way forward, to seek haphazardly in her tomes, to wait and see...
~ Unknown
Donuk ve yavan oldu?u halde, ayn? olan? yeniden üretmeye s?rt?n? dayam?? bir ülkeden daha ümit k?r?c? ne vard?r?
~ Corinne Maier
Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history.
~ Craig Silvey
These were the things Kitty talked about when I met her—and I listened. She never wanted to know about my life—and why should she? My life was so monotonous that I would have found it difficult to discuss it with her if she had ever shown any desire to know what I did with myself.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Ned had a monotonous voice and he went on talking. He talked and talked and he made everything sound hopeless and depressing. I had felt miserable enough before, but when at last I managed to get rid of him I felt absolutely wretched. I finished my unpacking and then pulled back the heavy curtains. I expected to see the lights of London, pinpoints of light from lamp-posts which lined the streets and chinks of lights from the windows of neighbouring houses, but there was nothing to see at all. I
~ D.E. Stevenson
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I think it is really important for all of us to take breaks because we get so bored with our daily monotonous lives. I feel we become robotic so it is important to break that vicious circle in which we get caught.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
~ Ian Harding
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
~ Lois Lowry
Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan
His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2.
~ Jim Butcher
There was too much of a sameness about the evening's delights. He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.
~ Jim Thompson
So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.
~ Joanne Harris
Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
~ Jodi Picoult
If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?
~ Jodi Picoult
One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.
~ William Faulkner
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.
~ Unknown
I'm bored of being bored because being bored is so boring.
~ Unknown
Making unnecessary noises when you're bored...we all do it.
~ Unknown
When each day is the same as the next it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives, everyday the sunrises.
~ Paulo Coelho
Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow
~ Unknown
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
~ Voltaire