Janet Malcolm

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.

American Writer

Annie Dillard

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

American Author

Michael Hastings

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.

American Politician

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Quentin Crisp

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

English Writer

Andy Mineo

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.

American Musician

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

French Writer

W. H. Auden

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

English Poet

Max Beerbohm

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

English Actor

Use 'triviality' to express that something is so small or unimportant it's almost not worth mentioning.

Not Important

When calling something a 'triviality', it can sound dismissive, as if the matter is too small to care about.

Dismissive Tone

Labeling a concern as a 'triviality' might offend someone if they consider it important.

Undermining Issues

Emphasize that 'trivialities' do not have a significant impact or influence on the bigger situation.

Minimal Impact

'Trivialities' can be things that are easily overlooked or forgotten because they seem too small.

Easily Overlooked

Sometimes 'trivialities' can distract from more meaningful activities or thoughts.

Can Distract

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 is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.

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 more than a few tens of dollars I couldn't find my shoes one recent morning and as usual I had to ask my wife if she had seen them but I shouldn't have to bother my wife with that kind of triviality I should be able

Triviality