A Quote by Terry Pratchett

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Terry Pratchett

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Because Boring Full Ignored Life Living Mundane Strange Too Wonderful

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Terry Pratchett
English - Author
April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

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

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Ruth Draper

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

David Byrne

It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

Tove Jansson

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.

Charles Krauthammer

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

There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Ray Harryhausen

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

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

RuPaul

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

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Harvey Pekar

It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.