Quotes by Triviality What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? Annie Dillard trivialitydyingpersons We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! Charles Bukowski trivialitycircusdies 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. Deborah Eisenberg trivialityhorrorwriting 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? Francois de La Rochefoucauld trivialitynot-good-enoughmemories 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. Henry R. Luce trivialityepicshould Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities. Laurell K. Hamilton trivialitywastetoo-short We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. Oscar Wilde trivialityserious-thingssincere A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. Thomas Aquinas scraptrivialitysublime Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. Thomas Carlyle trivialitylifebook
