Mundane Existence Quotes

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I don't see myself as having had an exceptional life. Yeah sure, I've had an interesting life, but I'm more interested in what's not exceptional about it.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

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.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

I'm really just an ordinary person.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

We live very ordinary lives.

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

How plotless real life was!

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I was a boring man but a reflective man.