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Quotes About Mask

Ez nem én vagyok. Ez nem lehet énnekem az arcom. Az se én voltam, aki ezt az arcot elÅ'ször fölpróbáltam. Se akkor, se most – csak amit az emberek kinéznek belÅ'lem, úgy nézek ki. Mintha kinézetre sose lettem volna én.
~ Ken Kesey
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.
~ Mark Millar
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
~ Bruce Springsteen
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows.
~ William Peter Horn
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
O, what may man within him hide,Though angel on the outward side!
~ William Shakespeare
Everybody is wearing a mask. It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
~ xingjian gao
A mask of feigned nonchalance. It took practice to come up with that look. Somebody who had been shamed so many times that he'd adapted to simply never showing it, rather than changing to not do things he was ashamed of.
~ David Wong
Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice. And I'll believe in grace and choice. And I know perhaps my heart is farce, But I'll be born without a mask.
~ Mumford and Sons
I am just a broken soul wearing a person as a costume.
~ K.L. Kranes, The Travelers
Confidence is the beauty, kindness is the charm, style is the uniqueness and fashion is the mask.
~ Debasish Mridha
From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.
~ Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat
en toda biografía hay un episodio ultrajante o desolado o siniestro, algo o mucho —o es todo— que para los demás es mejor que no exista
~ Javier Marías
And under this carnival disguise the heart of an old youngster who is still waiting to give his all. But how to be recognized under this mask? This is what they call a fine career.
~ Jean Anouilh
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
~ Jean Cocteau
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
~ Jean Genet
L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
When he described their actual interactions, I got only the most superficial impression of what she was actually like and a great deal of information about how he felt when he was with her – a sure sign of self-absorption masked as love.
~ Jeanne Safer
I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan
~ Jeff Lindsay
Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
se hacía la dormida.
~ Elena Garro
This is who I am, Séraphine. Naked, with blade and blood. I am vengeance. I am hate. I am sin personified. Never mistake me for the hero of this tale, for I am not and shall never be. I am the villain.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Behind the spread grey masque of apparent death lay stores of accumulated life, ready to break forth at any point
~ Algernon Blackwood