“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
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
“My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.'… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely 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
“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
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
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
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality. — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone. — Burton Silverman 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
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
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
Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
