Face To Face Quotes - Page 12

• I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Moon, Faces

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  "Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)".

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• We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

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• O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Drama, Character

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

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• At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

  Mother Teresa

  Done, Faces, Hours

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

  Judy Blume

  Inspirational, Fear, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Dec 26, 2012

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• My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Son

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

  Ryan White

  Years, Faces, Thirteen

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• When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Lying, Eye

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Angel, Able, Faces

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 27, 2017

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• I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strong, Men, Sky

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Eye, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  God, Reading, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2090, Delphi Classics

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

  Garth Stein

  Zebras, Fear, Self

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• What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lissa. "I hear that from women a lot," said Adrian. Christian made a gagging sound, but the faintest glimmer of a smile crossed Eddie's lips, despite his otherwise tough guardian-stance.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dream, Lips

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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• "What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Needs, Faces

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dog, Names

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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• A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doubt, Sculpture, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.90, Penguin

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• When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

  Milan Kundera

  Hard Times, Faces, Sincere

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• It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Faces, Horror

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.14, Zillmann Publishing

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• The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

  Mary Balogh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Faces

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• Hey, Hachi People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize it... when you see it a second time face to face. -Nana Osaki

  Ai Yazawa

  Thinking, People, Hey

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