88 Quotes About Superficiality

What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...

...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green...

God dwells only in the depths of your heart; he detested the superficial superficiality.

Narcissism is very much a “disorder of superficiality.” Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors—work, school, parenting, and love—the narcissists’ propensity toward superficiality no longer seems that unusual.

Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.

She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.

Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to Ralph as pathetic as the ornaments made of corks and cigar-bands with which her infant hands had been taught to adorn it. He was beginning to understand this, and learning to adapt himself to the narrow compass of her experience.

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing