Top 454 Mundane Quotes & Sayings

There's something rich and nourishing in the mundane - that isn't sparkly or red carpet.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with the mundane tasks of her Carmelite convent: the washing of pots, the sweeping of floors, the folding of laundry. At some point of grace, the mundane became for her a sort of prayer, a way she could experience her ever-present connection to the divine pattern which is the source of life. She began then to see the face of God in the folded sheets.

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I want to elevate the mundane.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

I do not get caught up in mundane, routine things.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

My life is too mundane for anyone to write up.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

I didn't like mundane life.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.