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

  Sean O'Casey

  Happiness, Secret, Joy Happiness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Simple, Simplicity

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.89

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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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• 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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• We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

  Karl Edward Wagner

  Prayer, Our World, Soul

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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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• It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, May, Orthodoxy

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