44 Quotes About Monotony

The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest?

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.

The distinct feature of everything extant is its monotony.

От однообразия устаешь, даже если это счастье. («Дона Флор и два ее мужа», Жоржи Амаду)

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.