Quotes about Authenticity
I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.
— Bo Burnham
I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.
— Ashton Kutcher
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
— Lydia Millet
I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.
— TobyMac
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves
— Victor Hugo
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
— Milan Kundera
The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…
— Milan Kundera
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
— Milan Kundera
But was it love? Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?
— Milan Kundera
Ä°nsan hiçbir ÅŸeyi, hiçbir kimseyi ciddiye alamay?nca yaÅŸamak ne kadar da hüzün verici!
— Milan Kundera