Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. — Ajay Devgan Copy Share Image
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet. — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...” — John Green Copy Share Image
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“My tendency to get kind of bored quickly and not just accepting the monotony of the status quo, the continual monotony of… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren 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
“Monotony One monotonous day follows another monotonous day, without change. The same things happen, then happen again. The same moments approach, then… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these… — William Atherton Copy Share Image
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.” — Daisy Goodwin 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
I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of… — Annie French Hector 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
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to… — Mrunal Thakur Copy Share Image
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins! — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Get out there, even if it's a hike or something, just break up the monotony of going to the gym. — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together? — Greg Bryk Copy Share Image
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
