Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Life is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

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.

Always the same thing.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

The future is a monotonous instrument

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.