Drudgery Quotes

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

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.

I am heartedly tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

I can't stand unpacking.

War? War is an organized bore.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

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.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It's nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.