Superficial Communication Quotes

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

I can't abide small talk.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

In the end words are just wind.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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.