“This monotonous world aroundSeems boring, colorless, and dull.I just existed till I foundYou in my life which was banal.”

“My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”

“My existence is colorless when I’m not imagining you. You haunt me, Annabelle. ”

“She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.”

“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”

“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”