Quotes About Superficiality

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.

Quando tutto è nuovo, il piacere è tutto in superficie.

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.

Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.

But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.

The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it's this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

La ciencia no me interesa. Me parece presuntuosa, analítica y superficial. Ignora el sueño, el azar, la risa, el sentimiento y la contradicción, cosas todas que me son preciosas.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

I was so caught up in the rush of superficial things in my world that I missed hearing the cries for help in someone else's world.

Desprecio la popularidad efímera

I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. Not anything human.

The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions.

all this shallow, superficial, external

Kennan brooded about Europe's fragility and his own superficiality. "Americanism, like Bolshevism, is a disease which gains footing only in a weakened body," he concluded with youthful certainty.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Some people are like fake flowers, appear beautiful from a distance but when you go near, you realize how useless they are.

Halloween is over and people are still being fake...

It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.

It's amazing how shallow people can be. What happened to spreading the love & being kind to one another?