Quotes About Mask

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Dear God, Max! What happened to your face?" Berg hysterically asked. She shrugged, the quills in her face wiggling when she did. "A porcupine attacked me. Flung its quills at me." She glanced around, seemingly not bothered by the many—many—quills hanging from her face like some weird, horrifying mask.

To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you're hurting.

It was Balfour, who as prime minister in 1903, had offered Uganda to the Zionists, but now he was out of power. Weizmann feared that his languid interest was just 'a mask', so he explained that if Moses had heard about Ugandaism 'he would surely have broken the tablets again'.

the body is nothing but camouflage.

It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

We wear the mask that grins and lies. It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes. This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties. Why should the world think otherwise In counting all our tears and sighs. Nay let them only see us while We wear the mask.

She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

Wearing a mask of obedience before royalty as they pulled the strings of the puppet monarchs.

His habitual melancholy was changing day by day into something more sinister. There were moments when he would desecrate the crumbling and mournful mask of his face with a smile more horrible than the darkest lineaments of pain. Across the stoniness of his eyes a strange light would pass for a moment, as though the moon were flaring on the gristle, and his lips would open and the gash of his mouth would widen in a dead, climbing curve

Boys learn to cover up grief with anger; the more troubled the boy, the more intense the mask of indifference. Shutting down emotionally is the best defense when the longing for connection must be denied.

Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

No fim das contas, o cinismo é uma grande máscara para um coração decepcionado e traído.

our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.

If I'm on a flight for more than 14 hours, I will do this Fresh face mask on the plane. I don't care how silly it looks; it saves my skin from drying out.

Instead of learning the rules, she'd learned to disappear.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

don't know how to be any other way." Boston smiled unexpectedly. "None of us do. That's the point of life. Haven't you figured that out yet? All of this—" She motioned to her kitchen. "It's a facade to keep the demons at bay. Some of us are better at faking it than others, but we all have our issues.

Dragon was controlling himself admirably but he had the look of a man who has found something unpleasant on his boot.

We are who we pretend to be.

Los franceses empezaron a caminar con las manos en la boca, o amarrándose una improvisada máscara de tela fina sobre boca y nariz como forajidos de leyenda;