43 Face Quotes For Inspiration

When seeking a dose of inspiration, turning to the wisdom and experiences of others can be incredibly uplifting. Faces, often described as the mirrors of the soul, communicate emotions and stories without uttering a single word. In this blog post, we've curated a captivating collection of 43 face quotes that beautifully encapsulate the essence of human expression. Whether you're in need of motivation, a fresh perspective, or a touch of poetic beauty, these quotes will remind you of the profound impact of a simple look, smile, or thoughtful glance. Dive in and let these words inspire you to view the world—and yourself—in a new light.

1. “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

3. “Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?” - Virginia Woolf

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

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

6. “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” - Karl Lagerfeld

7. “She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ” - J.D. Salinger

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

9. “It is common knowledge that a well-bred man should as far as possible have no face. That is to say, not so much be completely without one, but rather, should have a face and yet at the same time appear faceless. It should not stand out, just as a shirt made by a good tailor does not stand out. Needless to say, the face of a well-bred man should be exactly like that of other (well-bred) men and of course in no circumstances whatsoever should it alter. Naturally houses, trees, streets, sky and everything else in the world must satisfy the same conditions to have honor of being known as respectable and well-bred.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

10. “One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. ("He shall sit as a refiner"; the gold- or silversmith never leaves his crucible once it is on the fire.) In the red glow lay a common curved roof tile; another tile covered it like a lid. This was the crucible. In it was the medicine made of salt, tamarind fruit and burnt brick dust, and imbedded in it was the gold. The medicine does its appointed work on the gold, "then the fire eats it," and the goldsmith lifts the gold out with a pair of tongs, lets it cool, rubs it between his fingers, and if not satisfied puts it back again in fresh medicine. This time he blows the fire hotter than it was before, and each time he puts the gold into the crucible, the heat of the fire is increased; "it could not bear it so hot at first, but it can bear it now; what would have destroyed it then helps it now." "How do you know when the gold is purified?" we asked him, and he answered, "When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.” - Amy Carmichael

11. “Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.” - Clarence Day

12. “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

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

14. “The little girl’s face was from Will’s vilest nightmares. Cavernous mouth, distended chin, bastardized nose. The enormous, bulging eyes glared at Will, demanded he see the truth, commanded him to acknowledge his sin.” - Kevin Wallis

15. “This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.” - Lucy Grealy

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

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

18. “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

19. “Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.” - Lisa Ann Sandell

20. “Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.” - Dean Koontz

21. “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

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

23. “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

24. “Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.” - Gail Carson Levine

25. “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

26. “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

27. “The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen” - Milan Kundera

28. “A mask tells us more than a face.” - Oscar Wilde

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

30. “Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.” - Christopher Isherwood

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

32. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

34. “Even pretty faces are mutilated by ugly character” - أحمد عمارة

35. “...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...” - John Geddes A Familiar Rain

36. “...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

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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “Novidades brotam em mim arranhando a face interna de meu rosto e caso eu não as exorcize via escritura irromperão em tentáculos através de minha boca e narinas, pálpebras e orelhas.” - Filipe Russo

41. “Toda dor não originária de jogar óleo fervente na própria face constitui sacanagem.” - Filipe Russo

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

43. “A máquina social esmaga o cidadão, gargareja o suco gástrico e o cospe na face da próxima vítima.” - Filipe Russo