Quotes About Mask

His facial hair served not just as a calendar but also as a mask, absorbing the stares of others while allowing him a little privacy in plain sight. "I can hide behind it, I can play to stereotypes and assumptions. One of the benefits of being labeled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior.

In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

This loss of self was precisely what Knight experienced in the forest. In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

Brown, incidentally, had a contract with Riddell that paid him a royalty for every mask sold, bringing him millions in the decades ahead.)

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

Thus were they most anxious for that which was to prove their destruction:—yet do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—after the enjoyment of life? These innocents stretched out their arms to approaching death, because it assumed the mask of pleasure;

Aggression often masks a desire to seduce – I'd read that in Boris Cyrulnik, and Boris Cyrulnik isn't fucking around.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

he was the clean wrapper for a filthy deed.

Nobody truly knows me, but I suppose that's the way it is for everyone. Or at least I hope so. We seem to have the tendency to put on a front in the best interests of ourselves, but eventually these fronts weld themselves to us until we no longer recognize our own soul in the mirror.

Stupids only wear covid masks and force others also to do so to become fools like them.

The shadow is the image of ourselves that slides along behind us as we walk toward the light. The persona, its opposite, is named after the Roman term for an actor's mask. It is the face we wear to meet the social world around us.

Cruelty has a polite mask of hypocrisy. The more deceitful the person, the more polite his tone.

You will always be alone without a mask.

I might be a self-diagnosed sociopath with a mask for every occasion, but I wasn't a monster.

So where's the real you? Huh? Let's say you decide to rip away the mask -- what kind of face will be revealed? The problem is that when a human face has spent a number of years beneath a mask, deprived of light and oxygen, it changes. Not only does it age, as all faces do, but it tends to get a bit pallid, flaccid, puffy...

That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Meu marido gosta de se fingir de mau. Mas é só aparência. peixoto (para d. Lígia) Ã¢â'¬â€ Ah

he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular character. In this theatrical sense, personality has to do with the role or character that the person plays in life's drama. The person's individuality, in this sense, is a matter of the roles or characters that he or she assumes.

The troll lives in his bones and walks abroad wearing his skin, even under the sun.

Her bright red lipstick couldn't hide the fatigue in her smile.