Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide…

“It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.”

— Ruth Downie

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

— Emile M. Cioran

“because total non-communication in a place like the circle was so difficult, it felt like violence”

— Dave Eggers

“Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between men who…

— Gaston Bachelard

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

— Eugene Ionesco

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