Quotes About Mask

Perhaps there was no magic for faling off your own mount and dying alone and unmasked.

It shines and it gleams, but is not what it seems.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

Ksi??yc to tylko maska s?o?ca. Wk?ada j?, kiedy wychodzi noc? pilnowa? ?wiata. Ksi??yc ma krótk? pami??, nie pami?ta, co by?o miesi?c temu

I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement performed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Behind this understanding of vocation is a truth that the ego does not want to hear because it threatens the ego's turf: everyone has a life that is different from the "I" of daily consciousness, a life that is trying to live through the "I" who is its vessel. This is what the poet knows and what every wisdom tradition teaches: there is a great gulf between the way my ego wants to identify me, with its protective masks and self-serving fictions, and my true self.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

El desconocido era pura oscuridad: capa negra con capucha, máscara negra, guantes negros. Encanis estaba delante de mí ofreciéndome una moneda de plata en la que se reflejaba la luz de la luna.

I'm out of sorts all the time,' I said. 'I just don't show it.

You see, there's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.

What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could manipulate in order to manipulate others. He himself remained invisible, a puppeteer working the strings of his alter-ego from a dark, solitary place behind the curtain

Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás

Así pues átate la máscara y píntate de verde las pestañas.

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

Cale, I am the Second of Mask. We are more than comrades, more than friends. I am at your shoulder through whatever comes. Now … be the First.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)

I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh

He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.