Quotes about Monotony
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
— Ecclesiastes 1:8
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.
— Oscar Wilde
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
— Edith Wharton
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
— Samuel Johnson
That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Boredom is rage spread thin.
— Paul Tillich
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
— Edith Wharton
I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.
— Randy Alcorn
Si tout autour de moi, est monotone et décoloré, n'y a-t-il pas en moi une tempête, une lutte, une tragédie?
— Victor Hugo
monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.
— Ravi Zacharias
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
— DH Lawrence