shallow existence Quotes

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.