Monotony Quotes

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. (Edith Wharton)
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. View quote
Benjamin Britten
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. View quote
Vance Packard
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. View quote
Ivor Novello
By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage? View quote
Stella Gibbons
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind-dealing with Texas-is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make. View quote
Bode Miller
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. View quote
Lin Yutang
We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone. (Robert M. Pirsig)
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone. View quote
Arthur Symons
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment. View quote
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. View quote
Randall Jarrell
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. View quote
Irving Wallace
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. View quote
Joshua Foer
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 six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief. View quote
Dean Karnazes
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. View quote
Peter O'Toole
We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day. (Gavin Pretor-Pinney)
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. View quote
Ajay Devgan
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. View quote
Noah Wyle
White walls! White walls! Torturous sprawls, With ne'er a window space. And so confined a quaking mind Goes mad in such a place The monotony so torturously Cuts deep into the mind, That men lose hope and just elope With charge of any kind. View quote
Bobby Sands
It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature-neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. View quote
Thomas Hardy