Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be… — Dallas Willard
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. — D. H. Lawrence
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. — John Piper
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its… — Henry David Thoreau
I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. — Lisa Lutz
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,… — Thomas Hardy
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that… — Stephen Fry
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing… — W. Somerset Maugham
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is… — Karen Marie Moning
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a… — Jeffrey Eugenides
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little… — Barbara Pym
If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child,… — Donna VanLiere
Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you… — Cassandra Clare
The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in… — Gerald Morris
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may… — Edwidge Danticat
Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had… — Jonathan Franzen
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you… — Jean Toomer
Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared… — Carl Sagan
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. — Megan McCafferty
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened,… — Lois McMaster Bujold

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