Quotes About Sincerity

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

Dear God," she said. She was shuddering suddenly and the tears came back and she looked past me into the light overhead. "If I can't trust you, then there is no one." "I love you" I said. "I don't care about any of it, I swear. I love you." Holy Communion," she said. squeezing her eyes so the tears came out. Yes Holy Communion, my darling," I said.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I love you. I wish we were real. — Anne Sexton, from a letter to Brother Dennis Farrell, 28 March 1963, A Self-Portrait in Letters, eds. Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

There is no such thing as a lesser truth.

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

I can promise my fans what you see from me is what you get! No additives, no preservatives.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

I don't make empty promises.

My dream is to be able to promote a message of honesty, whether with music or in anything that I'm doing. I don't think to be a role model you have to be perfect.

I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

I don't have a need to promote myself.