Top 42 Quotidian Quotes
#1. What's your usual gig?"
"Physical fitness coach. I find it rather humdrum. Your assignment will be a welcome break in the quotidian ennui.
Julian May
#2. One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
Andrew Solomon
#3. Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence
whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
Mason Cooley
#4. However much our quotidian cares consume us, our dreamtime is too valuable, and will be devoted to problems not susceptible to rational consideration.
David Mamet
#5. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...
Hakim Bey
#6. Tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.
... the window rosy with anemic November light.
Lauren Slater
#7. One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.
Jennifer DuBois
#8. As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian.
Gregory Maguire
#9. If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.
Jim Woodring
#10. This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.
Cynthia Ozick
#11. For the first time he began to wonder whether he should jettison his transatlantic dream and settle for something more quotidian, perhaps focus his company on ship-to-shore communication. There was
Erik Larson
#12. I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.
Marilynne Robinson
#13. I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.
Elizabeth Strout
#14. I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'
Elizabeth Strout
#15. I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
Harvey Pekar
#16. It takes a fictionalized or invented excursion to buy a pencil in the winter dusk of London as an excuse to explore darkness, wandering, invention, the annihilation of identity, the enormous adventure that transpires in the mind while the body travels a quotidian course.
Rebecca Solnit
#17. Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#18. I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.
Simon Hoggart
#19. Hilmar operates at the level of the sublime. The quotidian - parking his car, paying his bills - doesn't interest Hilmar at all. So invariably he parks poorly and forgets to pay his bills.
Eric Weiner
#20. Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all
David Mitchell
#21. The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
Ben Marcus
#22. I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
Harvey Pekar
#23. There's nothing quite like a real ... train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
Anita Diament
#24. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
John Updike
#25. After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
Darin Strauss
#26. The ordinary was the divine, where common sense met mystery, where logic kissed the cheek of the inexplicable, the immeasurable, immemorial spirit throbbing like veins beneath the hard gray asphalt of quotidian life.
Tony Hendra
#27. Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.
Neal Boortz
#28. I wake up, eat, make a beat. Play Xbox, make another beat and go to bed. Occasionally do something. I rarely party.
Boi-1da
#29. When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.
Anonymous
#31. Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'.
Dada Bhagwan
#32. UGH. Boys. They're like French class
no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.
Jen Calonita
#34. Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.
Joseph O'Connor
#35. Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
John Hawkes
#36. It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#37. Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
Walter Kaufmann
#38. Without winners, there would be no civilization.
Woody Hayes
#39. The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. You and I both know that people see only what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. But just because a person chooses to not believe something, doesn't mean it's not real
Karen Lynch
#41. If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
#42. I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
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