Obsession with Appearance Quotes

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.