Drudgery Quotes

“Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.”
― Oswald Chambers

“Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for the moment.”
― Robert Black, The Control Sickness

“... his experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

“Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.”
― Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt

“He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any zeal, except in special circumstances. It is true that in these cases his zeal was clothed with a spirit of vengeance directed against the whole human race—this being his second favourite occupation. Petitbidois would have liked to hold the reins of power. This being beyond his sphere, he utilized the small driblets of authority which came his way for the purpose of casting ridicule upon established law and order, by making it act as a sort of unintelligent and, if possible, malicious Providence. 'The world is an idiot place anyway,' he would say, 'so why worry? Life is just a lottery. Let us leave the decision to chance.”
― Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle

“I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by: Walt Whitman

“She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.”
― Jo Victor, Romance by the Book

“Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Men så uppdök minnet om gamla fäderneförmaningar och råd, och då framkom den gamla lögnen, att allt arbete är lika aktningsvärt och förehöll honom hans högmod, och så tog han sitt förnuft till fånga och gick hem för att skriva 48 verktum Ulrika Eleonora.”
― August Strindberg, Röda Rummet

“He had never talked of what he wanted to do, where he was going, he never joined in the aimless conversations that clustered round the idea of something better in another time. He didn't believe in the future, only the present, and as our future, our years, had turned so relentlessly into identical presents, I understood him more.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.”
― Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle

“In my experience, when you live with a woman for a long period of time, many of them start to remove what you consider “fun” from your life. It’s like they see your fun as a threat to them. They want your only fun, to be them. Sadly, by that stage, there isn’t much fun left in them, for you.”
― Robert Black