Top 1200 Monotonous Life Quotes & Sayings

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.

To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore. Take your choice!

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

The future is a monotonous instrument

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .

As much as I love doing music, it can get monotonous sometimes.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

I'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

I like to vary my workouts as doing just one thing gets monotonous and I get bored.

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.

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.

Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The dramas we encounter are part and parcel of being human. If we experienced no change or drama in our lives, if nothing unexpected ever happened, we would merely be like automatons, our lives unbearably monotonous and dull. Therefore, please develop a strong self so that you can enact the drama of your life with confidence and poise in the face of whatever vicissitudes you may encounter.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.