Quotes About Shallowness

Superficial.ism is a religion. It's simply hypocrisy...

Laut tetap kaya takkan kurang, cuma hati dan budi manusia semakin dangkal dan miskin.

Even the social life she'd envied had started to pall on her, the shallowness of it, the same competitive faces in the same rooms, the repetitiveness and lack of growth, the lack of tenderness or intimacy.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life? Is it possible that even that surface, which might still have been something, has been covered with unbelievably boring material, leaving it looking like drawing-room furniture in the summer holidays.

you had to have a deep, mysterious soul to want to destroy yourself. The shallower you are, the safer. Colborne

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon.

Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Vanity is but the surface.

This bank-note world.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

American culture is so appallingly superficial, fixated on celebrities, entertainment, sports, and self-indulgence.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.

Half-learn'd witlings

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.

An exuberant temperature by no means leads inevitably, or even usually, to shallowness, but the potential is there. Subtleties and sustained thought can be lost in a swirl of vivacious moods and energies, just as monomaniacal enthusiasm can limit awareness of and sensitivity to the perspective, needs, and contributions of other people.

I have known tolerably well, a good many "successful" men—" big" financially—men famous during the last half-century, and a less interesting crowd I do not care to encounter. Not one that I have ever known would I care to meet again, either in this world or the next; nor is one of them associated in my mind with the idea of humor, thought or refinement. A set of mere money-getters and traders, they were essentially unattractive and uninteresting.