If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. — Julia Ormond
Mindlessly ‘going through the motions’ without improvement – can be its own form of suffering. — Angela Duckworth
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. — Anton Chekhov
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. — Juvenal
Happiness is the longing for repetition. — Milan Kundera
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people. — Charles Bukowski
Short Monotony Quotes
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. — Guillaume Apollinaire
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. — Sean O'Casey
I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting. — A. Meredith Walters
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. — Benjamin Britten
I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony. — Noah Wyle
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. — Margaret Sackville
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. — Ajay Devgan
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. — Lady Margaret Sackville
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Monotony Image Quotes
Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.
Breaking The Monotony Quotes
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. — James Laughlin
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
Get out there, even if it's a hike or something, just break up the monotony of going to the gym. — Jessica Biel
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Monotony Of Life Quotes
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
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days. — Corra May Harris
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death — Jean Toomer
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious. — Italo Svevo
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world? — Cornelia Funke
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life. — Jostein Gaarder
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences. — Mary Catherine Bateson
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study. — Honore de Balzac
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. — Bode Miller
Monotonous Quotes
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. — D.T. Suzuki
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way. — CM Punk
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. — Luke Evans
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. — Gustav Stickley
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes
If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience. — Lewis Howes
Monotonous Life Quotes
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. — Christopher McCandless
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. — C. Northcote Parkinson
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others. — Fulton J. Sheen
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. — Mason Cooley
Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. — Henry Miller
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else. — Alice Munro
So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again. — Virginia Woolf
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life. — L. Frank Baum
Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins! — Josemaria Escriva
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
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy. — Norman Vincent Peale
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and 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
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
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life. — Pierre Bonnard
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. — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony. — Julie Delpy
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. — David Foster Wallace
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. — J. K. Rowling
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he 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? — Stella Gibbons
It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there? — Chris Guillebeau
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul. — Therese of Lisieux
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting. — Ravi Zacharias
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
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. — Irving Wallace
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. — Alexander Maclaren
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
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
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed. — Freya Stark
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
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized. — Elisabeth Elliot
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate? — John Dos Passos
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
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces. — Martha Graham
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban
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
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