50 Inspiring Face Quotes

In a world where a single glance can convey countless emotions and stories, faces hold a unique power to inspire, connect, and reflect our innermost feelings. They are the canvases of our experiences, capturing everything from joy and love to determination and resilience. With this in mind, we've gathered a collection of the top 50 Inspiring Face Quotes that beautifully encapsulate the essence of human expression. Whether you're seeking a spark of motivation, a moment of reflection, or simply a reason to smile, these quotes are sure to resonate and uplift. Dive in and discover the profound wisdom hidden in the simplicity of a face.

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

7. “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

8. “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

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

10. “His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is apt to think the wearer of the face incapable of any sort of feeling; the kind of face which, if it has any expression at all, expresses principally the resolution to go through the world decorously, without intruding upon or annoying anyone.” - Edward Lucas White

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

12. “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

13. “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

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

15. “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

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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

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

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

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

23. “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

24. “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

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

26. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35. “„Dva su načina na koja gledamo lice druge osobe. Jedan je da gledamo oči kao dio lica. A drugi, gledamo u oči i to je to, kao da su one lice. Takvih se stvari čovjek jednostavno preplaši. Jer oči su život u malome.” - Alessandro D'Avenia

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

37. “Buthe had the kindest face in the world, with big, dark eyes and buzzed-cutbrown hair.” - S.C. Stephens

38. “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

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

40. “...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

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

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

43. “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

44. “Uma lágrima ousou escorrer por entre uma das rugas, vales erodidos pela roda dentada do tempo que tem talhado minha face desde idade tenra.” - Filipe Russo

45. “To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

47. “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

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

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

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