Quotes About Sameness

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?" "No sir." "That bothers me.

Everything seems just alike in these days.

So it was stale time then, day in, day out

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.

The human quest for this interdependent order and our niche within it represents a profound necessity. The quest can, however, be perverted into a conservative grip on sameness. This has always proved deadly for the entire system.

It is always the same, always the same

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You

But whatever sameness I've noted in my relationships with women is not the sameness of Woman, and certainly not the sameness of parts. Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

In the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred.

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Perhaps the greatest maturity is our ability to conceive the whole universe as our container, our body as a microcosm of that universe, with no boundaries. That is more or less enlightenment. But most of us will need more finite containers for a while, even if we are beginning to learn to make do with intangible ones in a pinch. Indeed, as long as we are in bodies, enlightened or not, we need some bit of tangible safety, or at least a sense of sameness.

Everything was at once overwhelmingly the same and ever so slightly different.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

We live in an era in which tomatoes and fudgesicles taste pretty much the same.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

Or maybe when they do the operation - when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else - maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.