Monotonous Quotes

110 quotes by 105 authors

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus
I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in… — Charles Baudelaire
The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more… — Learned Hand
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. — Eric Hoffer
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. — Mason Cooley
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
... the monotonous beauty of wealth. — Judith Guest
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in… — Cheryl Strayed
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the… — Chris Messina
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine… — Alexis Bledel
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. — Luke Evans
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything,… — Criss Jami
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. — Kenneth Grahame
Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your… — William Morris Hunt
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in… — Charles Gounod
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization. — Robert Brustein
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! — Brian Eno

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