Platitude Quotes

“Patient stated that she felt like a burden to loved ones" - much later, when I read the notes from the emergency room, I did not have any recollection of the conversation. 'A burden to loved ones': this language must have been provided to me. I would never use the phrase in my thinking or writing. But my resistance has little to do with avoiding a platitude. To say a burden is to grant oneself weight in other people's lives: to call them loved ones is to fake one's ability to love. One does not always want to subject oneself to self-interrogation imposed by a cliché.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

“Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living.”
― Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle

“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Some people can't see their piteous personalities. They can't fathom the of their own selves!

They remain prisoners in their own cages of archaic thoughts. Fettered to a parochial mentality, they fail to become visionaries! Enslaved to their innate desire for pettiness, they remain small minded and little hearted!

Alas, wearing a well-tailored tailored suit or a trendy blazer does not take away their lack of sophistication. Unknowingly they make a caricature of themselves!

Thus, they remain epitomes of platitude and banality; their thoughts reek of oafishness, fatuousness, and avariciousness!

In the process, they fail to inspire the world, and let down people around them.”
― Avijeet Das

“Falsehood is not truth. Evil is not good. Ugliness is not beauty. Opinions are not facts. Fantasies are not realities. And, most of all, certainties are not platitudes.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Keep the main thing the main thing.”
― Bryant A. Loney, Sea Breeze Academy

“Don't just wish someone a good day - do something to make it better for them.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.”
― Ogden Nash