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Quotes About Monotony

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
~ Petrarch
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
~ Stanley Kubrick
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
~ Morrissey
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
~ Horace
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
~ Vance Packard
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
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
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
~ Oscar Wilde
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.
~ Ashley Madau
Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!
~ honeya
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
~ Anthon St. Maarten
To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
~ Ilyas Kassam
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
~ Henri de Lubac
Their tameness is shocking to me.
~ William Cowper
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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
Same old slippers,Same old rice,Same old glimpse ofParadise.
~ William James Lampton
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.
~ William Landay
Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don't like and are not especially good at.
~ David Graeber
Techno music is the foundational influence upon the modern tunes that saturate the cultural airwaves with unabashed monotony giving today's tunes all of the lyrical sophistication of a kindergarten merry-go-round rhyme combined with the musical nuances of an electric can opener.
~ David Gustafson
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
~ Norbert Wiener