Jules Laforgue Quotes

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

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

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.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

I lead my life as normal.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

I do not get caught up in mundane, routine things.

I get up every morning the same as everyone else, and scratch my head and just get on with the job. Whatever that job may be.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.