Monotonous Quotes

110 quotes by 105 authors

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C.S. Lewis
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. — James Russell Lowell
I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and… — Marisa Miller
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer,… — Michael Ende
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... — William Faulkner
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of… — Robert Lowell
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. — Richard Matheson
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a… — Michelle Richmond
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,… — Brandon Sanderson
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] — Agatha Christie
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe

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