Triviality Quotations

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.