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I didn't like mundane life. -- Jeanne Calment
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. -- Gerard Way
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman -- Huston Smith
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. -- Zeena Schreck
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
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own. -- Erin Morgenstern
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous. -- Julian Burnside
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. -- Martha Reeves
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. -- David Byrne
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. -- Lee Siegel
I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines. -- Gail Tsukiyama
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! -- Francis Ford Coppola
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing. -- Jim Woodring
It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well. -- Tatiana Maslany
Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that. -- Jeff Koons
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. -- Laura Schlessinger
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
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal. -- Maurice Druon
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. -- bell hooks
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. -- F. Sionil Jose
It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life. -- Alan Ball
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds. -- V. E. Schwab
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. -- Jennifer Carpenter
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. -- Donald Miller
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. -- Terry Pratchett
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. -- Billy Joel
Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. -- Gloria Furman
THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane -- Hope Edelman
The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path. -- Mark Galli
You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small. -- Kyle Minor
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. -- Frederick Lenz
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. -- Frederick Lenz
We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life. -- Masiela Lusha
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand. -- Walter Hill
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind. -- Laurie Foos

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