Quotes About Mundane

#1. Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.

Georgette Heyer

#2. Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

Elliott Abrams

#3. I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

Craig Hatkoff

#4. A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things

Aliette De Bodard

#5. Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

Will Shortz

#6. People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Jared Harris

#7. The hidden mist of forgotten truth is not for the mundane eye to see ...

Luis Marques

#8. Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Thomas Sowell

#9. We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

David L. Katz

#10. Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

Larry Atchley Jr.

#11. The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation ... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.
Eternity ended ten years ago.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters

#13. In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Chris Van Allsburg

#14. We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves.

Ashley Ormon

#15. Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

Kim Fowley

#16. Nothing in this world, not even the most mundane moments of our lives, is without meaning, nor is any of it lost forever.

Dean Koontz

#17. The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Erwin Rommel

#19. one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

John Connolly

#20. Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

Dillon Burroughs

#21. That's why, if you really want to break out of the mundane, you must learn to think and dream the impossible. Only with repeated thoughts can the impossible be made possible through the intention of the nonlocal mind.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

Walter Benjamin

#23. They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of the mundane.

Margaret Atwood

#24. The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#25. What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances ... the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

Conrad Hyers

#26. Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past, always have a dream to go. Because when you stop dreaming, life becomes a mundane existence.

Sara Henderson

#27. My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

Gia Coppola

#28. I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.

Rae Morris

#29. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.

Francine Scott

#30. When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#31. People in that robotic, drone-like state, walking the earth with no set mission other than to survive another day. Missing the glory of the day, missing the potential for beauty and magic that each moment brings. Missing the gift of life, to walk in the footsteps of the mundane.

Tony Curl

#32. I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

Craig Ferguson

#33. I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else's county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don't seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

Jan Morris

#34. We tend to think that God doesn't struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity

Sunday Adelaja

#35. We can find delight and surprise in the most mundane circumstances and the most generic of spaces.

Elaina Marie

#36. The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to.

Joel Kramer

#37. Maybe there was something safe in the not knowing, something that made it feel like all the mundane questions you were usually required to ask were not all that important after all.

Jennifer E. Smith

#38. It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Guy Kawasaki

#39. I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

Tana French

#40. To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.

Gregory Alan Isakov

#41. I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.

Evan Williams

#42. Not all of my missions involve terrorists or the fate of the world. Some are far more simple and mundane. Like locating a teleporting cat.

Brandon Sanderson

#43. Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

Rajneesh

#44. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

Camille Paglia

#45. Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#46. To celebrate the inner presence of God . . . is to become grateful for every moment of life. Every mundane and every juicy moment is sacred because God is alive in us . .

Jeff Imbach

#47. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.

Roberta Bondi

#48. An odd arrangement ... to have a couch facing the bed, and I smile to myself - I've picked on the couch as odd, when really it's the most mundane piece of furniture in the room. - Anastasia seeing the playroom for the first time.

E.L. James

#49. Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#50. He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

Thomm Quackenbush

#51. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.

Sean Carroll

#52. I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

Nick Offerman

#53. Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black.

Cameron Jace

#54. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

Helen Hollick

#55. Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#56. !The true magick of art is the discovery of the sublime within the mundane, the beautiful within the grotesque, the light within the darkness and all those reversed.!

Andy Paciorek

#57. Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

Karen DeCrow

#58. Fall in love with the divine, because the mundane love is as volatile as the trust of people who practice it.

Girdhar Joshi

#59. His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#60. I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.

Debbie Viguie

#61. Oh, for goodness' sake," yawned Isabelle, "Is he really waking us up at this ungodly hour just to prove his love to you or something? Couldn't he have called? mundane men are such twits."
(Thinking its Simon when the "doorbell" of institute rings)
-Isabelle to Clary, pg.188-

Cassandra Clare

#62. 'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#63. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

Jill Stauffer

#64. Most people create a destiny of minutiae, of the mundane. They create their own limitations. When the moment comes for them to stretch and leap, they find themselves boxed in, locked down by their own fears.

Bill Blais

#65. To express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere.

Edgar Cayce

#66. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

T. Greenwood

#67. His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.

John Connolly

#68. Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

#69. Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.

Thomm Quackenbush

#70. Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.

Marian Deegan

#71. The fundamental insight of polytheism, which distinguishes it from monotheism, is that the supreme power governing the world is devoid of interests and biases, and therefore it is unconcerned with the mundane desires, cares and worries of humans.

Yuval Noah Harari

#72. I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that's magic, then I believe in it.

Natasha Mostert

#73. As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape
fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

Barry B. Longyear

#74. Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?

Kate DiCamillo

#75. You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.

Paul Reiser

#76. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.

Nicola Yoon

#77. I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Harvey Pekar

#78. At the end of every day - chaotic and mundane alike - motherhood is about the adoration and enjoyment of our great God. The

Gloria Furman

#79. I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

Ti West

#80. Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

Donna Ball

#81. For me, animated film is about magic. This is how magic becomes part of daily life, invading daily life.... Magic enters into a quite ordinary contact with mundane things ... (making) reality seem doubtful.

Jan Svankmajer

#82. Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

Oren Peli

#83. Surrender is usually dying to self on a daily basis and most often found in the mundane.

Jennie Allen

#84. I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called "the truth," whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#85. After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.

Craig Thompson

#86. One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#87. Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#88. When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#89. Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

George S. Patton

#90. Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Cecelia Ahern

#91. There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

Terence McKenna

#92. Don't prioritize the mundane.

J.A. Konrath

#93. When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

John De Ruiter

#94. The exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

K.J. Parker

#95. Scrawny little mundane bastard.

Cassandra Clare

#96. I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.

Herb Kelleher

#97. Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.

Dalai Lama XIV

#98. Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives ...

Cassandra Clare

#99. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.

Adele Griffin

#100. Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar