Quotes About Banality

My life has become a boring pop song and everyone is singing along.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

la realidad es mucho más vulgar, más mediocre, más chata.

This is why he urges Haida, despite the banality of the world around him, to live fully and find meaning in that process where he can. Midorikawa is not Mephistopheles tempting Haida with a choice, but an arhat acting out of an abundance of compassion; his purpose—to judge from the results—is to awaken Haida to his own special ability.

The tragedy of banality, produced by ordinary circumstances, and therefore all the more inescapable, remains to be written.

Contemporary thinking in contemporary art, an associative collage of banality, turns into an empty formality, expressed in an ugly imagination, where people try to surpass their own selves in a vicious imagination.

Cynicism has an energetic vampirism of banality.

Triviality is the price of communication.

Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.

Life had been soft for so long a time, edgeless and spongy, and now, here in all its surface banality and submerged horror was this idiot event—her own doing—this undignified confrontation with mortality.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"—only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.