Triviality Quotes

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

Good Memory Not Good Enough Enough Our Recollect Triviality Retain How Least Person Same Often Happens Us Why

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. W. H. Auden

Differences Direct Triviality Proportion Between Opinion Friends Taste Irritating

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold. Michael Hastings

Democracy Strange Experience Despite Kind Silliness Entire About Something Triviality Absurdity Also Sounds Campaign Uplifting Unfold Watching

The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography. Janet Malcolm