Quotes About Mask

Your daughter should not be allowed to assemble the mask…but that doesn't mean I don't admire her.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Unless these people saw her cracks. Unless they got too close and realized that she was ruined inside.

Everyone thinks I'm one thing, but I'm other things, too; I'm behind a curtain; I'm living a lie.

M'importava assai poco che l'accordo ottenuto fosse esteriore, imposto, probabilmente temporaneo; sapevo che il bene e il male sono una questione d'abitudine, che il temporaneo si prolunga, che le cose esterne penetrano all'interno, e che la maschera, a lungo andare, diventa il volto.

Pueden ustedes reírse de mí, cuando les dé la espalda.

Cada vez que le ocurría apiadarse y avergonzarse de sí mismo hasta el extremo de que se le llenaran los ojos de lágrimas, se sentía luego deprimido y asqueado. Nunca había sido un sentimental propenso a exhibir sus emociones, siempre había sabido disimular los tumultos que agitaban sus sentimientos tras una máscara de perfecta serenidad

Short, square, cleanshaven, his head seemed carved out of an elephant's tusk, the whole massive cone of ivory left more or less complete in its original shape, eyes hollowed out deep in the roots, the rest of the protuberance accommodating his other features, terminating in a perfectly colossal nose that stretched directly forward from the totally bald cranium. The nose was preposterous, grotesque, slapstick, a mask from a Goldoni comedy.

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.

have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. "This is indeed a mystery

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

You keep saying "I'm fine" to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: "Why aren't I fine?

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

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.

I will never understand the determination behind a fake personality

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most.

They see me smile, but the don't know what I feel inside.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence

Like all obsessive characters, Merrick was inordinately boring. He was uninterested in books, music, politics, people or, seemingly, even sex. His studied politeness was a mask that must conceal a slow-boiling malevolence. I can't see what he could have responded to in an irrepressible jokesmith like Jimmy Porter. He could squeeze out a frosty smile only when someone like a lovingly hated star collapsed with coronary.

I realized that the Internet could be a mask as surely as any cowl. I could assume an identity — and this time, not a second-hand version of someone else. This would be mine — my mask, my shield — my persona." 

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.