Quotes About Monotony

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

O Suburbs of Despair where nothing but the weather ever changes!

Winter, then spring, summer, and soon autumn. All seasons are one, ice-cold, featureless, a hell of dreariness.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Zo ging het leven onafgebroken en eentonig voort, als met een zenuwachtig egoïstisch materialisme: er werd geleden en er daalde geen algemeen rouwfloers neer op de wereld; er werd geleden en toch bleef alles het zelfde en lachte men, sliep men, at men rondom dat leed.

Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

I really do. It's the first time I don't have to think at work, you know. It's really simple. You just answer the phone and put in people's orders. It's pretty laid back. You don't like it?" "No. I feel like it's killing my brain." "Maybe that's why I like it. I don't mind not having to think.

Oh, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! I don't care what happens, as long as everything doesn't go on repeating itself!

There is always that one class that you hate going to everyday.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

I do a job which I ought to find satisfying, and it leaves me bored and empty. A diet of milk and honey, when you have teeth, he observed.

I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.

These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.

The days were so much alike I barely noticed the months pass.

Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

À ses yeux, les mauvaises habitudes, la manies et les névroses faisaient partie intégrante de la personnalité et servaient à rompre la monotonie de l'existence.

ceux qui crèvent d'ennui, le dimanche après-midi parce qu'il voient venir le lundi et le mardi, et le mercredi , et le jeudi et le vendredi et le samedi et le dimanche apres midi