Quotes about banality

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

— Samuel Butler

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.

— Eugene Ionesco

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction.

— Cynthia Propper-Seton

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

— Virginia Woolf