Quotes About Triviality

One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

Of a man who only wills the Good out of fear of punishment, it is necessary to say with special emphasis, that he fears what a man should not and ought not to fear: loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist-forms of vapor.

None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.

Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

Die Wahrheit ist allezeit nur ein kurzes Siegesfest beschieden zwischen die beiden langen Zeiträumen, wo sie als paradox und als trivial gering geschätzt wird

The desire for continuity is a side-effect of the consciousness of mortality. The desire for meaning is a side-effect of the consciousness of triviality. Hence, consciousness is paid for with an exaggerated focus on sex and work; and those of us who ponder life find these two topics creeping into every discussion.

People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events that were not very important. Amusement

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.

What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

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 joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Este mundo no se morirá de una bomba atómica como dicen los diarios , se morirá de risa, de banalidad, haciendo un chiste de todo, y además un chiste malo.

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

Triviality and certainty are Kinderkrankheiten of knowledge.