Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
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.