Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a… — C.S. Lewis
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to… — Haruki Murakami
If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue… — Oswald Chambers
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could… — Joseph Conrad
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination… — Marquis de Sade
To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life… — James A. Baldwin
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing… — George A. Sheehan
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… — Loren Eiseley
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or… — Daniel Handler
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace… — Daniel Handler
I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and… — Kate Chopin
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your… — Neil Postman
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The… — E. M. Forster
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,… — Michael Ende
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All… — Henry Rollins

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