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  • 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.

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

    Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.365, BIG BYTE BOOKS
  • She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

    Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
  • Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

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

    Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”
  • Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!

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

    Love   Life   Truth  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.402, Rajpal & Sons
  • The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

    Song   Sea   Forever  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.309
  • Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

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

    Thinking   Long   Looks  
    William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press
  • In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

    Dream   World   Horror  
    Richard Matheson (2017). “Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday”, p.90, RosettaBooks
  • Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

    Evil   Infinity   Hell  
    Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”
  • To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami
  • Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

    Book   Reality   Psychics  
  • 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.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.76, Courier Corporation
  • So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

    Peace   War   Long  
    William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America
  • If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

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

    Purpose   Boring   Form  
  • Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  • My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.

    "Light and Music". ART21 interview, art21.org.
  • The future is a monotonous instrument

    Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press
  • Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

    World   Green   Want  
    "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.
  • I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

    Running   Crazy   Cardio  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    "The Abolition of Work". Essay by Bob Black, www.primitivism.com. 1985.
  • 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.

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

    Father   Adults   Trouble  
    Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam
  • Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

    Believe   Men   Water  
    Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195
  • At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

    War   Half   World  
  • 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.

    Children   Play   Desire  
    James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications
  • In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.

    Dream   Hands   Long  
    Richard Matheson (2017). “Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday”, p.90, RosettaBooks
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