What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse… — C. Northcote Parkinson 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
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen 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
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
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
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats 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
