Quotes About Facade

Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

You can pour syrup on a turd, but that don't make it a pancake.

folks with NPD have shallow emotional lives because so much must remain hidden, both from themselves and from others. This shallowness makes them hard to get to know, because there doesn't seem to be much of a real person beneath the façade. This is the opposite of most people with BPD, who feel and express a very wide range of emotions.

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

I just remember that everything looked the same-all style and no substance

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

But what I found out that summer . . . was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.

Among the haunts of humankind, hard-featured men, or with proud, angry looks, or cold, staid gait, or false and hollow smiles, or the dull sneer of self-loved ignorance, or other such foul masks, with which ill thoughts hide that fair being whom we spirits call man.

Deep down, he's shallow.