Quotessence
Home / Topics / Triviality Quotes

Triviality Quotes

Browse 100 quotes about Triviality.

Related topics

IfsShouldWorldKnowsPersons

Triviality Quotes

“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.”

MenSoulBodyTurnsOpportunityFireSeriousReadyThousandSixShameDinnerTongueClockKneesShallowTopicsTwistedConsumedDepartedBaffledTrivialitySerious ThingsBurnt Out
Author:Aleister Crowley
Create image

“To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”

HeartDoeMadeSoulCharacterEyeFacesBreakClearFirePerspectivePleaseDevilIllTongueConsistentTemperStableJaneEloquentTrivialityPlease MeSuppleImbecilityRochesterClear EyesMr RochesterFlatness
Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Create image

“Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.”

PeopleKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsLooksKindChildrenAsksWaitingToo MuchWisePrideGoes OnShopsHatsAddressesDriversRetreatDefectsTaxiOverflowTrivialityWait For HimLafayette
Author:Anais Nin
Create image

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.”

WorldNightHeavenEnemyDrinkTablesHungerEndlessVideoPoisonApplesWickedPrimeAppetiteEvery NightPieBanquetsTrivialityApple PieDribblePrime TimeHunger For GodNibblingX Rated
Book:A Hunger for God
Create image

“This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.”

KnowsRealDreamTogetherLife IsKnownEffectsBreathsPatternsAbsenceInteriorsLinkedTriviality
Author:Anna Funder
Create image

“Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.”

ThinkingMindSaidIdeasRealLightMovingInterestPleasureTalkingFailingSubjectsDutyEarsDelightChiefsAlternativesVainPausesShallowRepetitionDiscourseScandalPursuedStupid PeopleGreat IdeaSkullsTriflesPlungeCarried AwayTrivialitySlough
Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
Create image

“I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.”

WorldMayMadeDoneLife IsValuesDifferencesChanceMinesCreatingStandardsDiscoveryMathematicsIllPracticalsMathematicalJust OneJudgedEscapingVerdictTrivialityOne ChanceAmenities
Author:G. H. Hardy
Create image

“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.”

MenLooksMadeEarthFacesJoyForeverBearsCallingWasteMen And WomenRoundsSeedsDenialLittle ThingsHarvestSweetnessDevastationTrivialityHaggardMiddlemarch
Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Create image

“Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.”

KnowsYearsTwoHumanityBeliefGivenDifferencesBreakFundamentalsJewObservationDividedDualityPrimalTrivialityGentiles
Author:Maurice Samuel
Create image

“Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.”

LifeSoulGodHappensLordArmsHonorDelightWelcomeRejoiceDreadAvoidingCommitment To GodConfidence In GodIntimacy With GodTrivialityGod Works In Mysterious WaysOpen Arms
Book:For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality
Create image

“Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.”

ShouldMadeTodayPrayerReturnNeededThousandOfficeWasteIdealsShould HaveOur TimeShakesResolvePreacherMinistryTrivialityApostolic
Author:G. Campbell Morgan
Create image

“Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.”

WellsAgeTodayEnergyInterestDarkAttentionFocusGroupsSpecialSeriousMachinesPressureMedicalRidiculousPropagandaOrganizedFedsDark AgesSpoonsSpecial InterestsUntruthInconsequentialTrivialityTriviaPressure Groups
Author:J. Paul Getty
Create image

“To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.”

GivingFormDifficultRecordsSpecialHonestyHappeningsEverydayAppetiteDiariesEffectivenessBanalityTrivialityAppetite For Life
Book:Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]
Create image