Quotes about Monotony
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
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
Weekdays revolved on a sameness wheel. They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday's rough draft. Saturday, however, always broke the mold and dared to be different.
- Maya Angelou
On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.
- Margaret Atwood
Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same.
- Margaret Atwood
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
- Paulo Coelho
I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.
- George Eliot
Habit is a great deadener.
- Samuel Beckett
I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The ordinary life of every day, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid; and if it is so moved, it soon becomes painful.
- Arthur Schopenhauer