Daily grind Quote by Hugh Howey

“the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought,”

— Hugh Howey

“Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and…

— John Varley

“WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain...”

— Jack London "Martin Eden

“The mornings were the worst. Roger told me this was Classic Depressive. He said that mornings were generally the most trying part of the…

— Suzanne Scanlon

“A shudder skittered down my spine at the thought, and I shoved it away, focusing on my surroundings, on the task ahead. That was…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Was this what it was like to be human? Were people actually so miserable and brainless that they looked forward to this—to spending Friday…

— Jeff Lindsay

“I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the…

— Jojo Moyes

“The more I took note of how my body and brain clicked along through the day, the more I realized that I spent a…

— Dee Williams

“There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of…

— Arthur Koestler

“His routine was fixed. A morning spent reading books, then a sandwich in front of the local lunchtime news and an afternoon of brain-training…

— Sarah Stovell

“moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

— Markus Zusak

“Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed…

— Terry Pratchett