Shallow Quotes

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Why do you need worldly things to define you? Why do you need a rank or a status to tell others who you are? Why concern yourself with the capricious opinions of others who are less impressed with who you really are and more impressed by the carefully crafted image you present to them - an image that is entirely surface with no inherent value? Take away the things and the status and see who notices you.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.”
― Robert Boswell, Century's Son: A Novel

“He’d thought he was over caring what people thought about him. He’d thought that loving Eleanor proved that. But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Marriage is deep. Don't marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown”
― Shon Hyneman

“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual «There!» yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald

“My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.”
― Cecil Thounaojam

“you know you are shallow when all you can do is talk badly about others”
― miss Gath

“it’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way.”
― Anna Jae

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Having random sex the way Tania did sounded kinda...hollow. I didn’t want to live in a Hollowland.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bedmates