Facing Life Quotes

“Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

“The devil—one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962”
― Sherwood Anderson

“We just didn’t want to go home, where we would be surrounded by what we truly are and all that we pretended to be, facing what we might never reach.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.
You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.”
― Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa