Ezra Pound Quotes

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

Habit is a great deadener.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

Normality is death.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.