Banality Quotes
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Banality Quotes & Sayings
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A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.
— George Saunders
I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.
— Kevin Powers
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
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
— Jason Alexander
U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
— Glenn Gould
Perfection is, after all, a form of banality.
— Elisa Braden
Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
— Ervin Staub
So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
— Edwin Newman
If there's evil in recklessness, there's also evil in banality.
— Robert Draper
There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their angerwhat remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood. — Brando Skyhorse
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
— Studs Terkel
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.
— Richard Flanagan
Banality is sometimes striking.
— Marguerite Duras
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
— Gustave Flaubert
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
— Christian Marclay
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
— Jean Lorrain
I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.
— Lori Nelson
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.
— Jean Baudrillard
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
Love is banality to all outsiders.
— Mae West
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Much worse is the evil of banality.
— Vanessa Place
Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
— V.S. Naipaul
Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?
— Leslie Jamison
Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.
— Warren Ellis
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
— Carl Jung
That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
— Mark Ruffalo
(Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)
— Clive James
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
— Jean Baudrillard
A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.
— Carolina DeBartolo
Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!
— Thomas K. Matthews
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
— Dag Hammarskjold
