Banality Quotes
Banality Quote of the day
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
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.
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.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
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.
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.
Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
