Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull…

“Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his…

— Mitch Albom

“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”

— Eleanor Brown

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

— Ron Shock

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

— Chelsea Manning

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

— J. Paul Getty

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to…

— Helen Keller

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

— Beth Moore

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity…

— Heidi Julavits

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,…

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

— Joe Hill

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins