Mundane Life Quotes

“We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby sneezed violently into a crumpled tissue; as a dirty discarded plastic bottle scuttled along the platform under a breath of wind; as a mechanised billboard on the station wall rotated from an advertisement for hair products to an advertisement for car insurance; as life in its ordinariness and even ugly vulgarity imposed itself everywhere all around them? Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware—were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”
― Caleb Reese

“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,

within       I am awake

repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns”
― Frank Bidart, Star Dust

“It’s the simple things in your life that make up the bulk of it. The mundane is where we live and we end up missing most of it. We find it again in the silence and in attention of everyday life.”
― Eric Overby, 17: Haiku Poems

“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.
Life. In all its mundane majesty.
And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.”
― J.R. Ward, Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection

“He took pleasure in her inconsequential talk just as he did in the sunshine and the snow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Life is for living not for been stuck in a rut of complacency where normality consists of the mundane.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“True gratitude is about the ordinary.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...”
― Dominique Goblet, Pretending Is Lying

“But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by the dailiness of ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.”
― Penelope Lively, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

“Humdrum is Wicked”
― Kshanasurya

“Battle scars aren't the only marks of a testimony. Sometimes, the testimony is just the fact that you are unscathed, that the relationship that didn't work out saved you a headache, that the business deal fell through before it even started, or that you're living a quiet, drama-free life. God is just as incredible in those moments as He is in the battle moments.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“The Day:
Wondering if I’m mental
Wondering if you are
Stretching my spine
Masturbating then hating it
Falling in love on aisle 12
Acting tough in public
Singing in the shower
Lotioning my untouched body
Fretting about my skin
Missing her again
And when I’m about to sleep,
I wish I could just fast forward
To wondering if I’m mental.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The reason why I work on staying sensually awake is because I often find myself irked by the tiresome predictability of modern relationships.”
― Lebo Grand

“Mundane is beautiful too..
like the quiet rhythm of raindrops on a windowpane, or the simple elegance of a sunrise painting the sky in hues of pastel..
like a worn book filled with familiar stories, or a chipped mug cradling your morning coffee..
The mundane holds a quiet magic, a comfort in its constancy.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Välillä tuntuu kuin vain odottaisin. Kuljen täällä, asun täällä odottaen jotain. Mutta minulla ei ole aavistustakaan, mitä se jokin on. Erityisen selväksi tämä tulee, kun lasken päiviä seuravaan viikon alkuun kuin odottaisin sitä. En kuitenkin odota mitään erityistä. En päivää jona tapahtuisi jotain, ei muutosta näköpiirissä.”
― Elin Willows, Inlandet

“poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja”
― Zbigniew Herbert, 89 wierszy

“Our mundane existence is darkness for the human mind.”
― Elmar Hussein

“No, life has no soundtrack, just the daily grind occasionally alleviated by short-lived bursts of happiness—a vacation, the birth of a child, retirement. This is my life and the life of everyone I know—all my friends, all my family members, everyone with whom I have more than a passing acquaintance. I’ve spent nearly forty-five years on this planet, and the majority of those years—my adult years, my reality-based years—have shown me that the adventure Molly and John had no longer exists. This is why I so want Molly to wake up and tell me that I’m wrong.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“How can I ever do anything extraordinary with such a mundane existence?”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“But most of the time, people are doing completely mundane things and just making them seem better with their enthusiasm. It's all in how you sell the story.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“There is often something within individuals which is much higher and better than their everyday life and actions would seem to indicate. Material environment and circumstances tend to retard and prevent the expression of the best in us”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, The Life Beyond Death

“Joy is found in the mundane when you open the window of God, for He is the breath of life.”
― Allene vanOirschot, The Fasting Weigh: Breaking the Chains of Addiction

“They had concurred too on their adolescent but still persistent fondness for Wodehouse novels, and their dislike for the sitar, and later Twinkle confessed that she was charmed by the way Sanjeev had dutifully refilled her teacup during their conversation.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Under-Grounds can Reach A Certain Cold Temperature. Since I Don't Exactly Have A Ffridge Here To Preserve Meat, They'd be Stored in A Basement Instead, i'd Probably only Take the Flesh and Internal Organs, and Remove The Blood.”
― Yasuyuki Tsurugi, Farming Life in Another World Volume 11

“Undergrounds can Reach A Certain Cold Temperature. Since I Don't Exactly Have A Ffridge Here To Preserve Meat, They'd be Stored in A Basement Instead, i'd Probably only Take the Flesh and Internal Organs, and Remove The Blood.”
― Yasuyuki Tsurugi, Farming Life in Another World Volume 1

“During my interview at the park I was mesmerized by the routines of strangers. I wanted to ask questions that borrowed deeper into the fabric of a single day. As I continue filming I was also beginning to articulate a feeling I had had dormant for a long time . Everyone It seemed to me has something truly weird about them something unique and bizarre. This uniqueness was most apparent in everyday act, in the banal rather than the extraordinary : the way to pick clothes for the day, the things they ate, how they spent a free hour. This was their compass. It seemed to me, more so than any more abstraction”.”
― Ayşegül Savaş, The Anthropologists

“But life can be interpreted in so many different ways,’ said Ianthe in her quiet voice. ‘Perhaps there the novelist has the advantage and he can let his imagination go where it will.’ She saw herself again in John’s room in Pimlico, washing up at the sink in the corner. ‘Even the most apparently narrow and uneventful life,’ she began thoughtfully, then stopped, uncertain of what she was going to say next. What did it mean for her — that little episode — what was its significance in the pattern?”
― Barbara Pym, An Unsuitable Attachment