Quotes About Authenticity

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

But an honorable relationship, she reminds us, is one in which "we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us…of life between us." When we are not able to speak authentically, our relationships spiral downward, as does our sense of integrity and self-regard.

People never really reinvent themselves. They migrate back to whatever they truly were.

How do you conceal a secret? With openness.

Being constantly with other people places a pressure of normality on me that I can't always bear. Here, alone, I can be the way I am. My version of ordinary.

All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.

Harry G. Frankfurt

Sagen, was man denkt. Und vorher was gedacht haben.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me. I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world, I said after giving it some thought. I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me. Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure. People are strange when you're a stranger.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

I've never met a girl who thinks like you. A lot of people tell me that, she said, digging at a cuticle. But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!

Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.

If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?

There are no truly strong people. Only people who pretend to be strong.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they're the ones you have to watch out for.