Top 159 Monotony Quotes & Sayings

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

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.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Monotony reveals our limitations.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Get out there, even if it's a hike or something, just break up the monotony of going to the gym.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

I love challenges, as it breaks the monotony and takes me out of my comfort zone.

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

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

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly

I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.