Superficial Quotes

357 Superficial quotes by 300 unique authors

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. — Ezra Pound
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial… — John Elder Robison
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth… — Edgar Allan Poe
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose… — Stanley Hauerwas
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free… — Lauren Oliver
Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed… — Lauren Oliver
Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in… — Emily Giffin
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin… — RuPaul
Lacey shrugged bashfully. â€œDo you think Iâ€™m superficial?â€ â€œWell, yeah.â€ I thought of myself standing outside Beccaâ€™s bedroom, hoping sheâ€™d take her shirt off. â€œBut… — John Green
If we donâ€™t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, weâ€™re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our… — Ellen DeGeneres
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known… — Timothy Keller
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
When you read a great book, you donâ€™t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape â€“ into different… — Julian Barnes
Show me a person who hasnÂ´t known any sorrow and IÂ´ll show you a superficial. — Tennessee Williams
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt
Pleasure to me is wonderâ€”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. — H P Lovecraft
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. — Michael Martin Hammer
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way.… — Unknown Author

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