Quotes About Facade

Having to pretend nothing was wrong, when everything was wrong, was excruciating.

Hallie had had plenty of practice over the years at hiding her true feelings and presenting a brave face to the world.

Lily drew him in with those eyes, her voice, the outer toughness she showed the world, the inner vulnerability she did her best to hide.

Does it hurt to be as suave as you, boss?" "It's agonizing." "Looks it.

I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions from coming in, and blocking their feelings from coming put. There are two way I try to shatter those facades, or at least make a hole where something can get in, to let the trapped feelings out--one way is violence, pain. The other is eroticism.

the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

The hardest thing isn't being sad. The hardest thing is being sad yet putting on a happy face around everyone.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one.

Don't trust the man who always keeps smiling.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

but all that rose to the surface was more surface.

At this moment nothing seems so difficult as squeezing pity into the semblance of avid interest.

Every smile was just mechanics. Every laugh was manufactured. Every public sign of affection was just that: for the public.

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.

Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

a smile in which malice tried to pass as friendly intent, in which amusement was in fact dripping venom.

Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.