Trivial Things Quotes

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

I'm kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn't want to let go of them. Or, you know, I'm fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Small things amuse small minds.

You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Happy Song' is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

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

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.