Quotes About Facade

You smile, but it never really reaches the eyes.

Every house on every street is really just a family facade. We look at it and think we know what's going on inside, but we never really have any idea.

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

You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it's got nothing to do with you, but you're not really like that. In your own way, you're out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can't tell by looking at you.

I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

The girl was rotten inside. Peel off a layer of that beautiful skin, and you'd find nothing but rotten flesh.

But Aomame could never smile easily, or casually, in front of people. When she forced it, she ended up with a tight sneer, which made others even more tense and uncomfortable. Tamaki was different: she had a natural, cheerful smile. People meeting her for the first time immediately felt friendly toward her. In the end, though, disappointment and despair drove Tamaki to take her own life, leaving Aomame – who couldn't manage a decent smile – behind.

Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.

Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.

Prestige is a distorting force that makes you want to like something that you really do not.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

Le resulta agotador estar en compañía de personas para las que una sonrisa espontánia es señal de infantil debilidad.

I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

You can never see my tears behind my anger and smile. The only thing you can see is my respect for you, because you deserve for it....

the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.

In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.

Most physicians try to maintain this facade of being rational and scientific and logical and it's a great lie," said Redelmeier. "A partial lie. What leads us is hopes and dreams and emotion.

Clark knew that the time would come to put a smiley corporate face on his ferocious ambition.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

How long can you gloss everything over and give people the idea that life is a sitcom?