Quotes About Mask

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

For some people a façade is necessary even with friends

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

The skinned neck, draped gracefully on the floor, seemed to be wearing a cat mask. The cat was only an exterior, life had posed as a cat.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

But sometimes a person who seems easy is one whose calm outside belies a troubled and turbulent inside.

What is the mind for if not to find God?" he said. "The scriptures assure us that this physical world is a mask, and yet the mask isn't physical. It's made of illusion, and illusion is created by the mind. Do you understand? What the mind has created, only the mind can undo.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

A guy in a stupid mask asked me not to tell you he exists," she said, reaching back to pet Xena. Skulduggery nodded. "Fair enough.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

You're not so different from Kiernan anyway. You both have lived long enough to lose friends—too long, maybe. Perhaps that's why the Minstrel wears a mask and keeps people at arm's length: he too knows the pain of loving too much.

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.

Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul.

He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.

Disguise the pain. Don't call attention. Don't be noticed.

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.