Banality Quotes

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

Banality is sometimes striking.

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.

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.