Faces Quote by Lucy Grealy

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that…

— Charles Dickens

“Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face,…

— William P. Young

This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery…

— Philippe Halsman

“His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is apt to think the…

— Edward Lucas White

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.…

— Marilynne Robinson

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

— Billy Joel

It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

— Ted Dekker

“There's something about outward appearances that has always been important to me. I always thought I was so ugly. I mean, I really did.…

— Nic Sheff

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.

— David Gemmell

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

— Eric Maisel