...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else. — Santigold Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Everybody gets plagued by indifference and monotony. The truth is, there are concepts that are constantly being repeated in this world, since… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
“It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
