Quotes About Platitudes

To be sure, these comments are meant to comfort, but they're also a way of protecting the speakers from the uncomfortable feelings that somebody else's bad situation stirs up. Platitudes like these make a terrible circumstance more palatable for the person saying the words but leave the person experiencing the adversity feeling angry and alone.

I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

As I've said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don't need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don't need a form of faith