Quotes about Monotony

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.

For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Plain sugar cookies, no matter how well they are made, are a bit boring to me.

I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

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.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.