100 Quotes About Mask

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. Criss Jami

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!. .. Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!. .. Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me! Gaston Leroux

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. Jim Morrison

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am looking for the one I can’t fool. Kamand Kojouri

Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy. Criss Jami

He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath. Victoria Schwab

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game — and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. Jennifer Birkett

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine. Nuno Roque

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces. Anthony Liccione

Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery. Anthony Liccione

It was as if he had two faces, one of utmost calm, one of furious action; and he wore both with ease. He was like the animal whose face he wore, able to sit in silence for hours, without moving a muscle, then flying like a raging storm into battle, returning again to perfect calm when the fight was over. Kaoru Kurimoto

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all–because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies. Eva Hoffman

Be a man! Put on a mask. Ljupka Cvetanova

You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil" His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice. His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers Kristen Callihan

No one is as simple as they may seem to be. Lik Hock Yap

It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on. Trevor D. Richardson

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings — Simona Panova

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor. Stacey T. Hunt

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked. Criss Jami

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon. Ameya Agrawal

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game Lucas Sterk

I don't need psychology I am not a sociopath Neither and Psychopath Deyth Banger

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. Nathaniel Branden

I always am in a role, lovely — for you, for them — even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role — and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had. Simona Panova

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending — not so much on stage as in real life... Simona Panova

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life. Simona Panova

Everyone wears masks. They come in all different shapes and sizes. The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are. How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be. It’s a tragedy that fear keeps us from our destiny. It’s hell when the person you were created to be is covered up by some cheap imposter. Rachel Van Dyken

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear. Sharon E. Rainey

People Are like Icebergs, You only really see the tip of them. Lucas Sterk

Tapping While Peeling, Back These Masks Stained With Stars…This Ashtrays My Heart, Colored In Filters Sucked Dry From The High, The Lipsticked & Famous, The Lovers The Haters, The Bent Or Those Who Live In The Cage…With Vision Sealed Tight Denying All Light...Left Only With Assumption From A Judge In Sleep State... L V HALL

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept. Emily Thorne

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved Kristen Callihan

March 1898What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low quarter of some Barcelona or Marseille. The streets were noisome, with their freshly-heaped piles of ordure outside the doors, in the blue shadows of their high roofs. They all led down towards the sea. The gold-spangled sea, seeming as if it had been polished by the sun, could be seen at the end of each thoroughfare, bristling with yard-arms and luminous masts. The implacable blue of the sky shone brilliantly overhead as I wandered through the long, cool and sombre corridors in the emptiness of a deserted district: a quarter which might almost have been dead, abruptly abandoned by seamen and foreigners. I was alone, subjected to the stares of prostitutes seated at their windows or in the doorways, whose eyes seemed to ransack my very soul. They did not speak to me. Leaning on the sides of tall bay-windows or huddled in doorways, they were silent. Their breasts and arms were bare, bizarrely made up in pink, their eyebrows were darkened, they wore their hair in corkscrew-curls, decorated with paper flowers and metal birds. And they were all exactly alike! They might have been huge marionettes, or tall mannequin dolls left behind in panic - for I divined that some plague, some frightful epidemic brought from the Orient by sailors, had swept through the town and emptied it of its inhabitants. I was alone with these simulacra of love, abandoned by the men on the doorsteps of the brothels. I had already been wandering for hours without being able to find a way out of that miserable quarter, obsessed by the fixed and varnished eyes of all those automata, when I was seized by the sudden thought that all these girls were dead, plague-stricken and putrefied by cholera where they stood, in the solitude, beneath their carmine plaster masks.. and my entrails were liquefied by cold. In spite of that harrowing chill, I was drawn closer to a motionless girl. I saw that she was indeed wearing a mask.. and the girl in the next doorway was also masked.. and all of them were horribly alike under their identical crude colouring.. I was alone with the masks, with the masked corpses, worse than the masks.. when, all of a sudden, I perceived that beneath the false faces of plaster and cardboard, the eyes of these dead women were alive. Their vitreous eyes were looking at me.. I woke up with a cry, for in that moment I had recognised all the women. They all had the eyes of Kranile and Willie, of Willie the mime and Kranile the dancer. Every one of the dead women had Kranile's left eye and Willie's right eye.. so that every one of them appeared to be squinting. Am I to be haunted by masks now?. Jean Lorrain

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away. Garth Risk Hallberg

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently. Criss Jami

Are my own thoughts bad? K. Weikel

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth Oscar Wilde

Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet. Megan Frazer Blakemore

A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. E.a. Bucchianeri

And I wasn’t playing a role — I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles... Simona Panova

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored — but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless. Anonymous. Simona Panova

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be. Vironika Tugaleva

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us — a wall that keeps love out. Vironika Tugaleva

As you recover, you will find yourself letting go of many of your negative beliefs. You will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. With this perspective, you will come to see, for example, that the names you were called as a child are simply not true. You are not ‘stupid, ’ ‘lazy, ’ ‘ugly, ’ or a ‘liar’. You can discover just who you really are. You can let go of your pretenses and masks and discover who the real person is underneath. Beverly Engel

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath. Melody Lee

Below the surface I lie dreaming, haunting images, in all colours and black. Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there. I keep the dream below the surface, the cracked mask absolute. Wynand De Beer

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice. Criss Jami

PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask Kamil Ali Kamil Ali

We all wear masksto veil the truth. Truth is nakedness. Truth is fear. Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lapasking you tolight his cigarette. Truth is father– with a limp cigarette on his lips –telling you to never use his matches to light it for him. Truth is father yelling:" It is not nice for little girls to do so”. Truth is a curious girlwanting to ignite a matchlike a woman. Truth is the maid watching from the kitchen, knowing. But knowing isn’t truth. Truth is the maid calling: Come. Come.Truth is the gardener understanding. But understanding isn’t truth. Truth is the maid saying, " Stay away! " Truth is a girl thinking she is in control. That nothing happened, nothing bad. But the truest truthis a girl knowing, a girl understanding thaton that daysomeone stole a little piece of her truth. Kamand Kojouri

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. Greta Garbo

We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it. . Alexandra Katehakis

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild. Shaun Hick

Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight. Asa Don Brown

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness. Barbara Ehrenreich

Most men who very seldom say a moral thing, very seldom do a wrong thing. Their immorality is simply a pose, an image that serves to differentiate them from the ‘morally perfect masses’. And as opposite to it, most men who very frequently say a moral thing, very frequently do a wrong thing. Their morality is simply a mask in order to gain the respect of the masses. Elmar Hussein

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me. Barbara Ehrenreich

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask. Criss Jami

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious. Shaun Hick

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen. Jessiqua Wittman

The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes. All too often individuals feel, after the fact-when feelings are hurt and hearts are broken-that it was a case of mistaken identity, that the loved one is a stranger. They saw what they wanted to see rather than what was really there. Bell Hooks

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies. Nopain

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be. David Malouf

When the lord gives a human a life to live with and all the things they need, why do the humans give back the money to the lord ? Are humans that crazy ? Or do we have a mask of saying it out instead of delivering what is called as mankind ? Rakesh Akuthota

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her. Donna Leon

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon. Ameya Agrawal

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die. A.G. Howard

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed. Bryant McGill

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. Sabaa Tahir

And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?"" La luna, " she said with a smile." Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk one Kristen Callihan

What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you. Nuno Roque

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another. A.J. Darkholme

No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder. MoDayvia LaBeija

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”. Steven Magee

I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I? Joyce Guo

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection. Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Perfection can mask imperfection. Khang Kijarro Nguyen

But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected. Carolina De Robertis

I took on the shape of a girl. Emma Cline

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. Unknown

I wonder. If I had you wear that mask today, Anne, would you find the courage to tell me what is troubling you?" Anne would very much have liked to confide in her father, but where in the world would she begin? He leaned over and whispered in her ear. "I will tell you a secret, my dear. All of my children are shy. They have simply learned the art of wearing masks. Lena Coakley

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see. Donna Tartt

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one. Lionel Suggs