Monotonous Quotes - Page 7

• Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Soul, Principles

  "The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell".

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• 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 days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Nausea, Reason

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

  Alice Munro

  Seductive, Romance, Despair

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• 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 eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hangover, Monotonous Life, Smell

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• It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.

  Steven Furtick

  Disappointment, Adventure, Eye

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.30, Multnomah

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• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

  John Dos Passos

  New Year, Time, Easter

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• The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Aspect, Animated

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2013). “Democracy in America -”, p.237, Read Books Ltd

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• [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Simple, Men

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 4

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