Quotes About Authenticity

Quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos, nunca con palabras.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?" "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be

Probablemente un extraño nos ve como somos, no como quiere creer que somos

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

It wasn't worth wasting your time trying to change the world; it was enough not to let the world change you.

Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived…

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

The bookseller handed me the book and winked. Have a good look at it, little dumpling. I don't want you coming back to me saying I've switched it, eh? I trust you, I said. Stuff and nonsense. The last guy who said that to me (a tourist who was convinced that Hemingway had invented the fabada stew during the San Fermín bull run) bought a copy of Hamlet signed by Shakespeare in ballpoint, imagine that. So keep your eyes peeled. In the book business, you can't even trust the index.

En esta vida se perdona todo menos decir la verdad.

The truth is what hurts.

In the end, I think that's what matters, that he's truly a good person and that he's real. That he's someone you can hold on to on a cold winter's night and who knows how to make you feel warm inside.

People get so used to lying and repeating other people's lies, either because they're afraid or out of self-interest, resentment, or sheer stupidity, and they end up lying even when they think they're telling the truth. It's the failing of our times. The honest, decent person is a species in danger of extinction . . .

I don't know what came over me. Don't be offended, but sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" I shrugged. "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

No confío en la gente que cree tener muchos amigos. Es señal de que no conocen a los demás.

Truth is always safe from people.

quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos y nunca con palabras.

Le maschere rivelano il vero volto delle persone

A volte è più facile confidarsi con un estraneo. Chissà perché. Forse perché un estraneo ci vede come siamo realmente, e non come vogliamo far credere di essere.

generally speaking, beliefs arise from an event or character that may or may not be authentic and rapidly evolve into social movements that are conditioned and shaped by the political, economic, and societal circumstances of the group that accepts them.

Learning how to differentiate between why one does things and why one says one does them is the first step toward getting to know oneself. And from there to no longer being a cretin, there's still quite a way to go.

Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.

Sose fogadjon el olyan kitüntetést, ami nem egy csekk hátán érkezik.