Quotes About Monotony

There is something in the first gray streaks stretching along the eastern horizon and throwing an indistinct light upon the face of the deep, which combines with the boundlessness and unknown depth of the sea around, and gives one a feeling of loneliness, of dread, and of melancholy foreboding, which nothing else in nature can. This gradually passes away as the light grows brighter, and when the sun comes up, the ordinary monotonous sea day begins.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.

Time had lost its multidimensional scope. There was only the present for Robert Neville; a present based on dayto-day survival, marked by neither heights of joy nor depths of despair. I am predominantly vegetable, he often thought to himself. That was the way he wanted it

Another day. Another collection of wracking hours.

He was always surprised more people didn't break under the assault of hours of self-aggrandizing orations delivered in pompous monotones.

The days are the same, though, damn it (days that you feel like pages of soft wet sandpaper in your fingers, the silent pliant teeth of time eating away); the summers are the same.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Wieder ist ein Jahr vergangen: allmählich wird mir dieser ewigwährende Zyklus ein wenig leid, wozu verschiedene Faktoren, deren Urheber ich in diesem Zusammenhang, um mich keinen Unannehmlichkeiten, deren Folgen, die in Kauf zu nehmen ich, der ich gerne Frieden halte, gezwungen wäre, nicht absehbar wären, auszusetzen, nicht nennen möchte, beitragen.

Formless days passed one after the other, as if swollen into an indistinguishable mass by the damp weather.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind

The days are very alike here, the hours of darkness long and bleak, and I am a stranger to myself.

Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

La incondicionalidad no dura demasiado si se tiñe de monotonía

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.