“Anything to vary this detestable monotony.”
“He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love.”
“...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”
“Monotony is the only reward of the cautious”
“But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.”
“Monotony reveals our limitations.”