Monotony Quotes

• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Creativity, Quiet Moments

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• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  Coco Chanel

  Time, Art, Business

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• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

  Bela Lugosi

  Life, Thinking, People

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

  Jean Paul

  Variety, Superiors

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• I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Use, Littles, Spontaneity

  A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Find You in the Dark”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

  Vance Packard

  Music, Rocks, Hysteria

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• I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feels, Monotonous

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Inspiring, Art, Men

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• My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.

  Phil Kay

  Mother, Mistake, Sunset

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• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

  Sean O'Casey

  Happiness, Secret, Joy Happiness

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• Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspiring, Mother, Sin

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.161, Xist Publishing

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• Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

  Alan Watts

  People, Banking, Realizing

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• Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Eye, Expression

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• The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Grind

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.10, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• There is one fault that I must find
  With the twentieth century.
  And I'll put it in a couple of words;
  Too adventury.
  What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
  If anyone's gotony.

  Ogden Nash

  Couple, Nice, Drinking

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Special, Trying

  "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.

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• Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

  Doc Brown

  Song, Writing, Keys

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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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

  Nature, Equality, Boredom

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• Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

  Anna Katharine Green

  Suffering, Apathy, Existence

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE FORSAKEN INN (Gothic Mystery Classic): Historical Thriller: Intriguing Novel Featuring Dark Events Surrounding a Mysterious Murder”, p.47, e-artnow

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• Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

  Martha Graham

  Repetition, Ecstasy

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• The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Kind, Surprise

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• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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