Quotes About Authenticity

A forced smile is uglier than a frown.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Denn kein Mensch kann für längere Zeit sich selbst das eine und der Menge ein anderes Gesicht zeigen, ohne am Ende in Verwirrung zu geraten, welches das echt ist.

What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Siate sinceri! Siate sempre sinceri! E mostrate francamente al mondo, se non proprio il vostro lato peggiore, almeno qualche aspetto, da cui possa essere noto il peggiore male che è in voi.

Fii tu însuÈ›i! Arat?-te lumii aÈ™a cum eÈ™ti, iar dac? nu-i dezv?lui ce-i mai r?u în tine, ofer?-i m?car o tr?s?tur? din care s? ghiceasc? asta!

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

Be true, be true, be true.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false?—it is impalpable?—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself, in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. Could the departed, whoever he may be, return in a week after his decease, he would almost invariably find himself at a higher or lower point than he had formerly occupied, on the scale of public appreciation.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love. Yet I am living without love. Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

My prose has no individual style as such, but is rather an unspoken and still unexpressed groping toward the personal. There is something there that wants to come out; something of my own that must be said. Yet, perhaps, words are not the way for me.

They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.

Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn't that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn't fit the mold? Well, regardless, Jerico found the faux pas and overcompensations more humorous than anything else.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

You are only one boy, with one voice...If you keep trying to be a choir, you'll lose that voice, and then who will hear you?

This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He pointed to his chest. 'I keep truth here. Not in other people's ears.' ?The Night Butcher