Taedium vitae. Marcus Aurelius, Notes 6.46

~ Sometimes, Marcus just waves his fist at the sky. Too much regularity in our experience of the world is painful, as is too little. ~

Ὥσπερ προσίσταταί σοι τὰ ἐν τῷ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις χωρίοις ὡς ἀεὶ τὰ αὐτὰ ὁρώμενα, καὶ τὸ ὁμοειδὲς προσκορῆ τὴν θέαν ποιεῖ, τοῦτο καὶ ἐπὶ ὅλου τοῦ βίου πάσχεις· πάντα γὰρ ἄνω κάτω τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν. μέχρι τίνος οὖν;

The same events are always starting up before your eyes in the arena and other public venues. Familiarity makes these spectacles boring, so that you become weary of witnessing them. This you suffer with all your life. Always the same things going up and down, from the same origins. To what end?