Quotes About Mask

My heroine would be myself, only in disguise.

Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

I tried to smile, but my skin had gone stiff like parchment.

He kept smiling, as if the corners of his mouth were strung up on invisible wire.

Each day demands we create our whole world over, disguising the constant horror in a coat of many-colored fictions; we mask out past in the green of Eden, pretend future's shining fruit can sprout from the navel of this present waste.

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of parties with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear.

Tomorrow what? Always patching masks, making excuses for having read a bare half of what I purposed. Yet a life is passing?

His face, which Romulan could not see, was enigmatic and unreadable. At such moments, Mercurio was at his most transparent, for enigma was his mask, as was frivolity. One might look closely and perceive trouble somewhere in the eyes, and some conceit of age. He was twenty-two, his spirit far older. And this spirit with a sure psychic awareness, had now tensed with him.

He studied Cyrion's vacant face, its hateful glamour like a mask, the searching, hopeless eyes.

It's always Mardi Gras somewhere.

You carried it all, like shards and moults on a tray, To be reassembled In the poem to be written so prettily, And to be worn like a fiesta mask By the daemon that gazed through it As through empty sockets – that still gazes Through it at me.

Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.

porque el reposo es eufemismo de derrota, y el sueño máscara de una nada metida en cada poro de la vida [...]

The horse was called Diamond because of the marking on her brow, an orphaned splash of white beneath the swishing mask of her long forelock;

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Het is onduidelijk of iemand een masker heeft opgezet of het juist heeft laten vallen.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I personally don't feel like I'm really different with the mask on or not, but I don't really like to take interviews or go talk to other people or in front of other people.

When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.

Me? Never in life!' said Smith, giving them his familiar beam of amiability: only now with a ragged carelessness, a desultory approximation, like a man who briefly raises a mask on a stick to his face but cannot be bothered to line up the eye holes. Septimus and Hendrick glanced at each other involuntarily, to share the dismay that each for different reasons was feeling.

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I've had lots of practice.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.

bit you, Kendra, but I could never take control of you. Your mind is shielded. None of those enemies are of serious interest except for the Sphinx and Mr. Lich. Despite her delusions, Torina is really just a minor player. I'm curious about the person in the mask. Could it have been the prisoner from the Quiet Box?