Falseness Quotes

Falseness Quote of the day

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

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.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")