Albert Camus Quotes

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

How does one get bored of life?

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.

It's just a grind every single day.

I just see myself in work mode. I'm like a robot: go in, work, go home. Autopilot.

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.

I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

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

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)