#monotony

But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#miracles #monotony #romantics #change

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

— Irving Wallace

#every #every man #excitement #man #monotony

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

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

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

— Albert Einstein

#creative mind #life #mind #monotony #quiet

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

— Edith Wharton

#deadly #monotony #mother #sins

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#men #monotony #nature #poets #soon

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#find #happiness #monotony #secret

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

— Margaret Sackville

#best #condition #creation #done #may

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

#leaves #love #monotony #other #time

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. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#breaks #change #cinema #evening #gives