Monotonous Quotes

• Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

  Antoinette Perry

  Suicide, Bridges, Circles

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• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  Coco Chanel

  Time, Art, Business

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

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Creativity, Quiet Moments

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

  Edith Wharton

  Inspiring, Mother, Sin

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.161, Xist Publishing

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• 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.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Life, Emotional, Religion

  C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (1965). “EAST AND WEST”

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

  Bob Black

  Teacher, Work, Stupid

  "The Abolition of Work". Book by Bob Black, 1985.

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• When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Golf, Hazards

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• Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

  Alberto Moravia

  Perfect, Trying, Problem

  "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

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• It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

  Pierre Loti

  Country, Children, Ocean

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• Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Unpredictability

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Santa Barbara, Paradise, May

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Alexis Bledel

  Years, Sides, Tvs

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• Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

  Brian Eno

  Firsts, Should

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.402, Rajpal & Sons

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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

  Mason Cooley

  Travel, Monotonous Life, Tourism

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• 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

  Life, Nature, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tattoo, Beach, Ocean

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.15, Virginia Woolf

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

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

  Peter O'Toole

  Men, Common, Sand

  "Peter O'Toole, Whose Acclaim Began With 'Lawrence of Arabia,' Dies at 81" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2013.

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