110 Quotes About Cliche

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.

Life is so ridiculously clichéd sometimes I wonder why we bother living it when nothing is ever a surprise any more.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)

Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to ­impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects ­everything to its needs.

...and I know it’s not terribly original, it’s nothing earth-shattering, I know it’s all been said a thousand times, but that may be true of everything in life that really matters, and anyhow, just because something isn’t original doesn’t mean it isn’t true, in fact maybe that’s how the truth usually is – monotonous, boring, not original at all.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.