34 Inspiring Quotes About Faces

In the vast tapestry of human existence, faces stand as intricate canvases, reflecting a myriad of emotions, experiences, and stories. They are the first impression in a sea of complexities, capturing and conveying unique tales without uttering a single word. Throughout history, artists, writers, and thinkers have turned to faces as a source of inspiration, finding beauty and depth in their every feature and expression. This collection of inspiring quotes about faces invites you to delve into the profound wisdom and insights shared by some of the most perceptive minds. Whether contemplating the nuances of a smile or the wisdom etched in age-old lines, these 34 quotes offer a fresh perspective on the timeless enigma of the human face.

1. “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” - P.G. Wodehouse

2. “Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.” - Irene Butter

3. “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. “Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.” - Salman Rushdie

5. “Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!” - Gaston Leroux

6. “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.” - A.A. Milne

7. “Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.” - Oliver Wendall Holmes

8. “Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

9. “I will land on my feet with a smile on my face.” - Diane Cook

10. “In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.” - Carson McCullers

11. “People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.” - Carson McCullers

12. “Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.” - P.G. Wodehouse

13. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” - Criss Jami

14. “Life's true face is the skull.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

15. “Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.” - Jess C. Scott

16. “Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!"-Marco” - Katherine Applegate

17. “Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them.” - Ralph Bouma

18. “Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.” - Steven Herrick

19. “Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.” - Deeanne Gist

20. “Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he knew how a doctor must feel sometimes when he looks at a belly. For her face was no more than a cover of skin, showing nothing of the terrible, complicated things, ugly and beautiful, that were going on inside her.” - Douglas Woolf

21. “Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and hated everybody at the high school. She would like to claw away her face, she told us, so that people would stop seeing things in it that had nothing to do with what she was like inside. She was ready to die at any time, she said, because what men and boys thought about her and tried to do to her made her so ashamed. One of the first things she was going to do when she got to heaven, she said, was to ask somebody what was written on her face and why had it been put there.” - Kurt Vonnegut

22. “...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it” - Charles Dickens

23. “There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

24. “Disease often comes with a smiling face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

25. “Devil and God – two sides of the same face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

26. “The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.” - Minhal Mehdi

27. “What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air!—almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too—the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom.” - Roman Payne

28. “...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...” - John Geddes

29. “... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...” - John Geddes

30. “The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

31. “All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.” - Hannah Harrington

32. “I bet she likes it hard, from behind, probably likes to get spanked too. I mean, just look at her, she has a serious come-fuck-me-face.” - Ida Løkås

33. “Beauty lies in the mind, inner soul....Beauty lies in the innocence, appreciation, understanding, warmth, expressions, caring nature, behavior towards others, the depth of understanding the situations, the kind of sufferings, struggles, losses, difficulties, sorrows, happiness- the thick n thins through which person sails throughout hi/her life. Which ultimately reflects on your face- the ultimate reflection of your mind and thus evolves a beautiful personality.” - Sriveena Dhagavkar

34. “E antes de enlouquecer de vez a tua face brande em brasas através de mim. E eu, eu te amei.” - Filipe Russo