Banality Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it… — Alan Dean Foster
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
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… — Susanna Tamaro
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my… — Andre Gide
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion -… — Francois Pinault
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,… — John Walford
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming… — Jamaica Kincaid
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite… — William Plomer
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… — Vincent Van Gogh
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is… — Nelson Goodman
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson

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