“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.” — Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Tag: monotony
Quote of the Day
“A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life.” — Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
Quote of the Day
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.” — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Quote of the Day
“Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son