“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile. — Jules Eckert Goodman Copy Share Image
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
