Best Monotony Quotations
103 Monotony quotes by 86 unique authors
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But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save…
— Jostein Gaarder
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There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of…
— Cornelia Funke
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Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of…
— Sarah Dessen
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Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
— John Green
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Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
— Francis Picabia
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
— Irving Wallace
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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an…
— Jean Baudrillard
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A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I…
— Italo Calvino
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To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band…
— Adam Richman
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— V. S. Pritchett
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
— Vance Packard
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I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
— Santigold
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When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or…
— Dean Karnazes
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I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
— Albert Einstein
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you…
— Anais Nin
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We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.
— Kate Miller
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Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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