Quotes About Commonplace

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, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Nothing here but kitchen things.

What I tried to do was to show certain inner "movements" by which I had long been attracted; in fact, I might even say that, ever since I was a child, these movements, which are hidden under the commonplace, harmless appearances of every instant of our lives, had struck and held my attention.

There's nothing unusual about love.

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

Once again there was the feeling that the ordinary things before one's very eyes were becoming unordinary.

When Janice had spoken of the strength she had as an afflicted person, her message was rare, but now that she's eyeless, her message is commonplace.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Nobody had told me I was common.

Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked. The hurt had become so commonplace, she rarely noticed it.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Eleventh-century Europe was not in a state of fully fledged anarchy, but the ravening violence of feud and vendetta was commonplace, and lawlessness endemic.

He hovered on unexceptionality.

And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind's ear, "…quite enough for everybody at present," she repeated. After all the foreign languages she had been hearing, it sounded to her pure English. What a lovely language, she thought, saying over to herself again the common place words…

Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile—what they said, what they did—she said something perfectly commonplace again.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.