26 Quotes About Banality

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banality of a life indistinguishable from other lives.

Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead.

It almost seems like a boy that was once captivated by scientific wonders, then became a scientist and discovered the sheer banality of it all.

At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich. See my trophies there. The one in the middle, the big one. That was presented to me by the Reich Youth Leader himself, Baldur von Schirach. Let me show you my scrapbook.

Casas entre bananeiras mulheres entre laranjeiras pomar amor cantar.Um homem vai devagar. Um cachorro vai devagar. Um burro vai devagar. Devagar... as janelas olham.Eta vida besta, meu Deus.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.