Quotes About Falseness

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Los psiquiatras hablaban estirando el dedo como batutas, hablaban de los otros, hablaban en tono falsamente afectuoso de los otros, del sufrimiento de los otros, de la angustia de los otros, de la perplejidad de los otros, sin entender que estaban muertos, Joana, definitivamente muertos, disertando sobre los vivos con la envidia que anima los gestos fosforescentes y blandos de los difuntos, sus órbitas huecas, sus enormes bocas sin dientes.

This wasn't a house. It was a movie set. The art, the hardwood floors, the rugs, the grand piano, the Italian lighting and furniture

I'm sure it was real but it resembled one of those cheap wigs worn by department-store mannequins, jet black and as glossy as nylon. It didn't seem to belong to her head.

I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.

Sometimes, and I don't know why, everything I want to say to you presses upon me with great intensity, like a crowd of people all trying to squeeze through a narrow door at once. And I have said nothing to you, less than nothing, for everything I have written recently has been false—not fundamentally, of course, because fundamentally everything is true—but with so much confusion and falseness on the surface that no one could be expected to see through it.

Algo similar ocurre con líderes populistas que pretenden encarnar a grandes personajes de la historia, como a Simón Bolívar o a Benito Juárez. No son más que una farsa que repite grandes acontecimientos en forma grotesca. Muchas veces la repetición ocurre como una bufonada desastrosa. Es lo que ocurrió en Venezuela con Hugo Chávez y lo que está pasando en México con López Obrador.

Behind every fake exists a real one.

A person who says to be not knowing own false friends and fictitious supporters is a bigger fake than all of them

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

El talento es el medio más seguro de falsearlo todo, de deformar las cosas y de equivocarse acerca de uno mismo. Sólo poseen una existencia verdadera aquellos a quienes la naturaleza no ha abrumado con ningún don. Sería por ello difícil de imaginar un universo más falso que el universo literario, o un hombre más desprovisto de realidad que el hombre de letras.

Oh! where is Truth? am I never to find it? I can bear artifice in the frivolities and gauds of the world–it is all artificial in itself, all heartless–but sorrow should be as true as it is sacred. Falseness there appals and disgusts me.

the woman I knew didn't exist. You had given phony references

That's what a book is: a failed attempt that, its failure notwithstanding, is sincere and hard-worked and expunged of as much falseness as he could manage, given his limited abilities, and has thus been imbued with a sort of purity.

I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked … and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

Isn't human nature the most consummate sham & lie that was ever invented?

No good can ever come of falsehood

Vice knows that she's ugly, so she puts on a mask.

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.