Superficial Quotes
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.
The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.
I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing
