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Quotes about Monotony

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
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui
- Oscar Wilde
One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
- William Faulkner
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
- William Faulkner
Boredom is rage spread thin.
- Paul Tillich
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- Vance Havner
The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.
- Sudha Chandran
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.
- Milan Kundera
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
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