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Triviality Quotes

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Memories, Not Good Enough, Triviality

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

Epic, Triviality, Should

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Charles Bukowski

Circus, Triviality, Dies

Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Sublime, Triviality, Scrap

Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Life, Book, Triviality

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

Serious Things, Sincere, Triviality

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.23, Penguin

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Waste, Too Short, Triviality

Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.210, Penguin

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

Deborah Eisenberg

Writing, Horror, Triviality

What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Dying, Triviality, Persons

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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