Quotes about face
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“There are such repulsive faces in the world.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

World

“When they face desperation… human beings become animals.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Animals

“I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

Decision

“You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Love, Revenge

“She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Love

“I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.'
'Shut your face.'
'Exactly my point.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Love, Fight

“Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Kiss

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

Truth

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"The Trouble with Man is Man", The New Yorker; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances‎

Truth

“And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Help

“There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.”

Stephen King book Rage

Source: Rage

Happiness

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Light

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

People, Way, Help, Hurt

“Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Pain, Truth, Soul

“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

Hope, Problem

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Powerful, Fate, Change

“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

As quoted in The Daily Telegraph (2 March 1988)

Life, Thinking

“I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”

Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan

Life

“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss, p. 118
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

Life, Courage, Dead

“The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Sadness

“It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities."
She stared. "What sort of private activities?"
This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. "Disrobe, and I'll be happy to demonstrate.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Smile, Imagination, Time, Happiness

“Who's that little brunette?" Suzanne asked. "I hate little petite types. Gregory doesn't look right with someone petite. Little face, little hands, little dainty feet."
"Big boobs," Beth said, glancing up.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Hate

“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

Teachers

“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Life, Idea, Change

“Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Sex, Guy, Time

“Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Truth, Personality

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

People, Fear, Imagination, Thinking

“I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Lie

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Feeling, Thinking

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Men, Fear

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.'
And she wept to hear his words.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Parting

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Pleasure

“Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of
color. “Did you just say demon?”

Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider once again glanced around the plane helplessly. “No, no.
I think I said seaman.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Whisper

Color, Jerk, Thinking

“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Books, Light

“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005)

“I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus. Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Augie: Does everybody else know?
T. C.: About my epitaph?
Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face!
T. C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.”

Steve Kluger (1952) American writer

Source: My Most Excellent Year

Night

“When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Love, Thinking

“[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Religion

“Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face" - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Demon from the Dark

Moms

“Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror.
A mortal female in full rage.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

War, Rage

“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

Fear, Courage

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

Life, Death, Fear, Evil

“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings

Smile, Time, Perfection

“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

Source: Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

Life, Game, Victory

“It'sloot!" he yelled, standing on his tiptoes so he could get in Clarisse's face. "If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Kiss

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Way

“Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.
George brought him back his independence.
But Beth handed him his crown.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

“Another day. Get up and face it.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“You're facing your demons. You'll come out stronger.”

Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer

The One I Left Behind

“I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Smile, Painting

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Courage

“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet

Love, Death, Fear, Lying

“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Way, Lovers

“Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed… Gods, justat him."…

… "Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop--”

Kresley Cole American writer

God

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

World

“I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Sadness, Dreams, Soul, Intelligence

“Less than forty-eight hours until G-Day, when Gaea the Princess of Potty Sludge would awaken in all her dirt-faced glory.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Princess

“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Star, Tear, Light

“Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: American Wife

Appearance

“Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli.
"No. Were discussing."
"Are you sure?"
"Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords on my neck standing out? Am I waving my arms around?"
"No."
"The were not fighting.”

Janet Evanovich book Sizzling Sixteen

Source: Sizzling Sixteen

Fight

“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The Christmas Sweater

People, Problem, Strong

“True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Death, Courage

“Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

“In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director

Source: Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

Life, Death, Dreams, Sense

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Love, Hope, Lovers, Thinking

“Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?”

David Eddings book The Diamond Throne

Source: The Diamond Throne

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”

Walker Percy book The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer (1961)

People, Business

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Beauty

“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time….
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Dreams, Way, Time, Princess

“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Way, Despair

“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Kiss

“We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”

Juliet Marillier book Seer of Sevenwaters

Source: Seer of Sevenwaters

Love, Decision, Future

“Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Game, Parting, Personality

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.”

Dick King-Smith (1922–2011) English writer of children's books

Source: Lady Daisy

Girl, Patience

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. One of the things which Gertrude Butterwick had impressed on Monty Bodkin when he left for his holiday on the Riviera was that he must be sure to practise his French, and Gertrude’s word was law. So now, though he knew that it was going to make his nose tickle, he said:
‘Er, garçon.’
‘M’sieur?’
‘Er, garçon, esker-vous avez un spot de l’encre et une piece de papier—note papier, vous savez—et une envelope et une plume.’
The strain was too great. Monty relapsed into his native tongue.
‘I want to write a letter,’ he said. And having, like all lovers, rather a tendency to share his romance with the world, he would probably have added ‘to the sweetest girl on earth’, had not the waiter already bounded off like a retriever, to return a few moments later with the fixings.
‘V’la, sir! Zere you are, sir,’ said the waiter. He was engaged to a girl in Paris who had told him that when on the Riviera he must be sure to practise his English. ‘Eenk—pin—pipper—enveloppe—and a liddle bit of bloddin-pipper.’
‘Oh, merci,’ said Monty, well pleased at this efficiency. ‘Thanks. Right-ho.’
‘Right-ho, m’sieur,’ said the waiter.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Luck of the Bodkins

Source: The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

World, Law, Girl, Lovers

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Pleasure

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Pain

“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

Evil, Hurt

“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Life, Death

“It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.”

Philip K. Dick book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 112)

Courage, Evil

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Dreams, Reality

“All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Hope, Thinking, Time

“Why do you keep looking back there?" the guy in charge had asked.
"From time to time I need an antidote," Eddie said.
"From what?"
"Your face.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Guy, Time

“Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

Waiting

“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

Life, Reality

“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Courage, Understanding, Help, Loneliness

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend, Friendship

“Leo: “I can’t believe I thought you were hot.”
Khione’s face turned red. “Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny, um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…"

"Everythings going to be alright.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy

God, School, Parent, Hurt

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Education, Future, Help

“Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin book Small Great Things

Also appears in Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Source: In 1962 James Baldwin penned an essay titled “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in “The New York Times Book Review”.
Context: We are the generation that must throw everything into the endeavor to remake America into what we say we want it to be. Without this endeavor, we will perish. ... Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Powerful, Change

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