It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
We have only one recourse in the face of death: make art before it happens.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
It is dawning. People wear their faces.
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.