When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've…

“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to…

— Avijeet Das

A River, Water and Fire. Raging, Endless, Emotions, Thoughts, Changing, Evolving, Roaring by, One after another. I stand in the center, Feeling the flow,…

— Eric Nickel

“They listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine.”

— James Joyce

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.”

— Anthony Powell

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by…

— Doug Aitken

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it…

— Clifford Geertz

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

— Asger Jorn

“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.”

— Carolina de Bartolo

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

— V. S. Naipaul

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love…

— Robert C. Solomon

“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon