Top Persona Quotes

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pity...

Persona Definition

(n.) Same as Person, n., 8.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that the...

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

I am a strong individual that may seem weak; but, my strength is in my ability to stay in the fight and sure my enemies that I can take the punches; and, still stay strong in my weakness. Because with...

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your chara...

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of...

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.