I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
Deb CalettiTags: secret chocolate surprise facade
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
Tags: pain love motherhood depression facade
She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze the heart of the coldest competitor with a single unblinking gaze over the rim of her ebony-framed reading glasses. But that persona was like a bodysuit that she pulled on at eight in the morning and peeled out of at five in the afternoon.
Donna BallTags: faking-it appearance facade
Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.
Tags: truth people good facade false-hope
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.
Criss JamiTags: solitude loneliness human fame popularity lonely slander fortune celebrities misunderstood libel attention emotional psychological misrepresentation introvert misconception naive physical being-yourself facade inability remedy misrepresented
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
Lisa UngerTags: truth free facade beautiful-lies
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
Kurt CobainTags: friendship shallow companionship superficial genuine kurt-cobain true-blue facade
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Neil PostmanTags: politics show-business dishonesty disinformation facade falsities
it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.
Evan MeekinsTags: truth fantasy fiction secrets character games young-adult young-adult-fiction fantasy-fiction facade young-adult-fantasy
I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.
Richard Paul EvansTags: curiosity discovery facade
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