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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Inspiring, Art, Men

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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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• 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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• Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

  Martha Graham

  Repetition, Ecstasy

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

  Sean O'Casey

  Happiness, Secret, Joy Happiness

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• I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

  Peter O'Toole

  Men, Common, Sand

  "Peter O'Toole, Whose Acclaim Began With 'Lawrence of Arabia,' Dies at 81" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2013.

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• Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Blessed, Catholic, Rosary

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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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• 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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• What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, Machines

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

  Lady Margaret Sackville

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

  Ajay Devgan

  Broken Heart, Promise, Today

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• What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Reading, Book

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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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• 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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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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