Shallow Emotions Quotes

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

If football covers all your emotions, that's too shallow for me.

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.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.

Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They're also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy - in fact, that's where I got the list.

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren't definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.