Superficial Life Quotes

It's so vacuous, this job. You're constantly looking at pictures of yourself, talking about yourself. Then I come back home, and all my mates want to talk about is me because I've been hanging out with Elton John and stuff.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"

I'm not trying to live a social media life or a life to just be in a magazine.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.

I'm just - like, I'm just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.