Quotes About Superficiality

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across.

Maybe, when you hear the name Beverly, you think of Beverly Hills--people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.

She had straight brown hair that fell to her shoulders, a rock the size of a Prius on her left ring finger, and she might have been pretty if the skin weren't stretched so tight against her face it gave her the unfortunate look of someone who'd been struck by lightning during an orgasm.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

Most stars are bad. Even a few big heroes I have seen are dumb.

That's what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That's what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

Pretty girls are a business' I say, 'and that has nothing do to with love

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.

And, you'll forgive me for sounding immodest, but i know that i'm good-looking. Throughout my life, both men and women have made their interest in me obvious. But I can't control any of that. It was simply the way I was born. Ultimately, it means nothing. I could have a heart of stone for all they know. I could be a psychopath or a sociopath. Not all monsters look like the Elephant Man, and not everyone who looks like the Elephant Man is a monster.

and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity. Section

If people are going to be so hard on each other, so mean, so superficial. Then why put up with the pain?

A ugly man with money often has his arm a beautiful lady who is willing to spend it.

This is looking like a contest of who can act like they care less.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.