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Quotes About Shallowness

The worst thing about living in America is the corruption . At home, we could contain it in the bars and nightclubs and bases. But here, will will not be able to protect our children from the lewdness and the shallowness and the tawdriness Americans love so much. They're too permissive.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
~ Dean Koontz
It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
~ Dean Koontz
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
~ Italo Calvino
The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.
~ Don DeLillo
Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.
~ Donna Tartt
It's amazing how shallow people can be. What happened to spreading the love & being kind to one another?
~ Unknown
I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.
~ Margo Jefferson
Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.
~ Unknown
Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.
~ Gail Collins
Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Were so superficial nowadays. We love with our eyes and not our heart.
~ Unknown
The model for prayer taught us by Jesus is shallow enough for a baby to bathe in and deep enough for elephants to swim through.
~ Unknown
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
To adore. To be adored." What vulgar words, there is something shallow and too self-satisfied in them. Just when these words are spoken on a festive occasion, a magnificent temple starts to fall, and after that, there is only complete indifference.
~ Osamu Dazai
To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.
~ Oswald Chambers
Travis would always be a nice man with a shallow character. On the other hand, Cade's character was as deep and dangerous as a river's currents. She
~ Patricia Rice
Goodness boy, you're like a clear pool. I can see ten feet through you, and you're barely three feet deep.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.
~ Paul Auster
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than this surface to others.
~ Paul Auster
Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás
~ Paul Auster