Banality Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. — Christopher Lasch
My life is short. I can't listen to banality. — V.S. Naipaul
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. — Gustave Flaubert
Banality is sometimes striking. — Marguerite Duras
Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of… — Roland Barthes
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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… — Jonathan Franzen
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… — Ian Mcewan
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my… — Roland Barthes
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Donâ€™t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said,… — Elif Safak
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil… — Thrity Umrigar
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich… — Elizabeth Kostova

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