#shallow

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #shallow

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#i #me #person #pleased #shallow

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

#shallow-beauty #beauty

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#passions #shallow #sorrows #love