Monotony Quotes

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

— Jean Paul

“Anything to vary this detestable monotony.”

— Charles Dickens

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

— V. S. Pritchett

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

Monotony reveals our limitations.

— Dale Carnegie

“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Monotony is the only reward of the cautious”

— A. Somebody

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony.

— Ilyas Kassam

I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

— A. Meredith Walters

But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly

— Nicki Minaj

“Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

— Jordan Gavaris

“Even God got tired of the monotony of life and brought in the serpent.”

— Sabah Carrim

If kids aren't allowed to experience monotony and tedium, it's unlikely they will value the times they are entertained.

— Ulrika Jonsson

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

“...endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all…

— can't remember

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces…

— Honore de Balzac

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be…

— George Eliot

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and…

— Stella Gibbons

“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round…

— Alice Munro

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to…

— Francis Picabia

...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

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require…

— Herodotus

I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band,…

— Jeremy Enigk

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the…

— Corra May Harris

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

“It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed…

— Haruki Murakami

Everybody gets plagued by indifference and monotony. The truth is, there are concepts that are constantly being repeated in this world, since…

— Kelly Cutrone

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to…

— Oscar Wilde

“After logging into his computer and taking a few sips of coffee, Brian began his workday the way he always did: by…

— Douglas Hackle

“Some people’s routines are so consistent, their shits are the same. Dammit, if you’ve been pooping the same smooth shits for a…

— Karl Kristian Flores

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their…

— Rudolf Rocker

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening…

— Anonymous

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal…

— Patti Smith

“She’s not happy in her marriage. Not unhappy exactly, but not happy. He doesn’t want kids, so that’s nothing to look forward…

— Phoef Sutton

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look…

— Jean Baudrillard

“167 It’s one of those days when the monotony of everything oppresses me like being thrown into jail. The monotony of everything…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Die slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does…

— Martha Medeiros