Quotes About Masks

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

Teku ljudi po ulicama, mi?u se lica u povorkama, lica naprahana, blijeda, klaunska, sa zarezima goru?eg karmina oko usana, kratkovidne maske žena u crnini, lica grbavaca, donje ?eljusti, voštani dugi prsti sa crnim, modrikastim noktima, sve prili?no ružno. Gadna lica, zvjerske njuške, žigosane bludom i porocima, zlobom i brigama, lica smolava i ugrijana, glave mrkvaste, gubice crna?ke, zubala tvrda, oštra, mesožderska, a sve je sivo kao fotografski negativ.

Svi smo mi maske i svi smo mi zakrinkani i svaki ?ovjek ima s vremena na vrijeme potrebu da skine svoju masku na jedan tren, da se raskrinka, da progovori po crti svog intimnog raspoloženja...

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

It is not surprising that masks are so destabilizing to see, so unnerving. We see from expressions if we are among friendly people or people who are dangerous to us. Human beings need to see faces in order to feel safe.

Le maschere rivelano il vero volto delle persone

No éramos ni él ni yo los que nos encontrábamos, éramos dos cuerpos, dos mecanismos de funcionamiento, aparentemente acompasado en ocasiones, dos fantasmas con la máscara que cada uno se había fabricado para el otro.

We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, In need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, Keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. [...] So primp, preen, prink, pluck, and prize your flesh, All posturings! All ravishment! All sensibility! Meanwhile, have you used your mind today?

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath -- as terrible as you like -- but a mask.

everyone was a monster and everyone wore a mask to hide the fact.

Man, the mask of God

Two boys wearing masks, the most visible symbol of the epidemic

One of the several masks of this same reality.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

No one is who they pretend to be.

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

Quando un figlio è piccolo, ci si crea un'immagine ideale di quello che sarà più tardi, e quell'immagine, come una maschera, nasconde il suo volto autentico che non si conoscerà mai.