Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

How does one get bored of life?

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

The glamour wears off and it soon becomes a job

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

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.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

Always the same thing.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.