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title: "124 Banality Quotes by 106 authors"
description: "Browse 124 Banality quotes by 106 authors. Discover the best Banality sayings and thoughts."
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> [... love is banality to all outsiders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-west/love-is-banality-to-all-outsiders/)

[Mae West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-west/)

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> [My life is short. I can't listen to banality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/my-life-is-short-i-can-t-listen-to-banality/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

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> [In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/machado-de-assis/in-woman-sex-corrects-banality-in-men-it-aggravates-it/)

[Machado de Assis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/machado-de-assis/)

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> [Banality is sometimes striking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-duras/banality-is-sometimes-striking/)

[Marguerite Duras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-duras/)

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> [I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-believe-such-passion-even-passion-born-of-fear-and-anxiety-is-far/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-perlis/because-of-its-vitality-the-computing-field-is-always-in-desperate/)

[Alan Perlis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-perlis/)

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> [“Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hennessy/insanity-is-the-only-real-escape-from-the-banality-of-our-lives-clara/)

[John Hennessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hennessy/)

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> [Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/art-is-no-longer-anything-more-than-a-kind-of-meta-language-for/)

[Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/)

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> [u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-gould/u201che-g-minor-symphony-consists-of-eight-remarkable-measures/)

[Glenn Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-gould/)

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> [“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-bartolo/a-plain-circular-bullet-is-widely-disdained-for-its-banality/)

[Carolina de Bartolo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-bartolo/)

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> [Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/studs-terkel/cannot-hannah-arendt-s-banality-of-evil-be-subject-to-transposition/)

[Studs Terkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/studs-terkel/)

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> [My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/my-whole-being-was-seeking-for-something-still-unknown-which-might/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/errollyn-wallen/when-you-re-creating-you-have-to-descend-to-depths-you-ve-just-got-to/)

[Errollyn Wallen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/errollyn-wallen/)

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> [English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elspeth-huxley/english-tradition-debars-from-dinner-table-conversation-almost-all/)

[Elspeth Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elspeth-huxley/)

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> [The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/the-great-work-of-art-is-the-complete-banality-and-the-fault-with/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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> [She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thrity-umrigar/she-always-imagined-that-evil-played-out-on-a-large-canvas-wars/)

[Thrity Umrigar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thrity-umrigar/)

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> [Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalie-sarraute/television-has-lifted-the-manufacture-of-banality-out-of-the-sphere/)

[Nathalie Sarraute](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalie-sarraute/)

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> [Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/perry-anderson/intellectuals-are-judged-not-by-their-morals-but-by-the-quality-of/)

[Perry Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/perry-anderson/)

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> [“There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brando-skyhorse/there-is-no-elegy-for-those-who-have-been-dispossessed-of-their-anger/)

[Brando Skyhorse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brando-skyhorse/)

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> [Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thrity-umrigar/life-happened-in-all-its-banality-brutality-cruelty-unfairness-but/)

[Thrity Umrigar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thrity-umrigar/)

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> [“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/evil-comes-from-a-failure-to-think-it-defies-thought-for-as-soon-as/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/remind-me-again-what-s-wrong-with-dave-matthews-basically-everything/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-walford/put-crudely-one-is-left-with-a-choice-between-two-unsatisfactory/)

[John Walford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-walford/)

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> [These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/these-memories-sustained-him-but-not-so-easily-too-often-they/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

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> [ In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" \[Intimate banalities\] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/in-1939-i-wrote-my-first-article-intime-banaliteter-intimate/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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> [Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-a-beard/let-us-put-aside-resolutely-that-great-fright-tenderly-and-without/)

[Charles A. Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-a-beard/)

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> [The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-tamaro/the-only-master-that-exists-the-only-one-that-s-true-and-believable/)

[Susanna Tamaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-tamaro/)

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> [What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/what-concerns-me-most-is-the-horrible-degradation-our-notions-of/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-is-indeed-my-opinion-now-that-evil-is-never-radical-that-it-is/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-zimbardo/in-contrast-to-the-banality-of-evil-which-posits-that-ordinary-people/)

[Philip Zimbardo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-zimbardo/)

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> [TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature ofthe medium, on a far more subtle level than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reuel-denney/tv-s-exploration-of-the-game-of-consumption-and-sociability-is-by-the/)

[Reuel Denney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reuel-denney/)

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> [But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamaica-kincaid/but-some-natives-most-natives-in-the-world-cannot-go-anywhere-they/)

[Jamaica Kincaid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamaica-kincaid/)

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> [Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-thomas/exclamation-points-are-the-most-irritating-of-all-look-they-say-look/)

[Lewis Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-thomas/)

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> [“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-chambers/it-is-well-known-how-the-book-spread-like-an-infectious-disease-from/)

[Robert W. Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-chambers/)

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> [The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walker-percy/the-mystery-lies-in-the-here-and-now-the-mystery-is-what-is-one-to-do/)

[Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walker-percy/)

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> [Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/billy-was-fascinated-by-the-television-at-its-most-basic-level-it/)

[Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/)

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> [Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eug-ne-ionesco/banality-is-a-symptom-of-non-communication-men-hide-behind-their/)

[Eugene Ionesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eug-ne-ionesco/)

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> [“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-penny/the-banality-of-evil-it-wasn-t-the-frothing-madman-it-was-the/)

[Louise Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-penny/)

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> [“Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/let-a-man-be-either-a-hero-or-a-saint-in-between-lies-not-wisdom-but/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

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> [That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ruffalo/that-s-what-i-love-about-music-all-these-banalities-suddenly-turn/)

[Mark Ruffalo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ruffalo/)

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                        "text": "Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?\" \"Basically everything, except technical proficiency,\" Walter said. \"Right.\" \"But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song.",
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                        "text": "Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.",
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                        "text": "These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.",
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                        "text": "In 1939 I wrote my first article (\"Intime banaliteter\" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.",
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                        "text": "Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.",
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                        "text": "The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.",
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                        "text": "What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about \"healing the wounds of division,\" that is right out of Orwell.",
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                        "text": "It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.",
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                        "text": "... In contrast to the \"banality of evil,\" which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the \"banality of heroism,\" which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.",
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                        "text": "TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature ofthe medium, on a far more subtle level than anything ever done by the movies. It can dramatize and expose andsuggest ways of transcending social banality that are impossible to the screen, largely because of the veryactuality and interview format of TV that at the sametime produces so much of its rubbish. It is terrible but true that TV has probably elevatedten times as many family conversations in Sourwater, Georgia, as it has degraded there.",
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                        "text": "But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.",
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                        "text": "Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!",
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                        "text": "“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in \"The King in Yellow,\" all felt that human nature could not bear the strain nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterwards with more awful effect.”",
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