Monotonous Quotes

110 quotes by 105 authors

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me… — James Joyce
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature… — Robert Graves
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,… — Simone de Beauvoir
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafÃ©s where they like me and cafÃ©s where they don't, streets… — Jean Rhys
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's… — Gustave Flaubert
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than… — Jack Kerouac
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night,… — L. Frank Baum
America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same… — James A. Baldwin
[First line] â€œThe business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. — Nora Roberts
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner
The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of… — Thomas M. Disch
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if… — Aldous Huxley
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro
I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people… — J.A. Redmerski

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