A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.
Dan: That's what I love about music. Greta: What? Dan: One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning! All these banalities - They're suddenly turned into these... these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From Music.
This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. No punishment has ...
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!
Between the tragedies and heroics there are the everyday banalities of war.
...the real troubles with living is that living is so banal.
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
