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Quotes About Masks

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.
~ Iris Murdoch
los mismos hombres que en la vida cotidiana parecen mansos, al contar con impunidad y un buen pretexto suelen convertirse en fieras sanguinarias.
~ Isabel Allende
Since it was already understood that the illness entered the body through the breath and not from a mosquito bite or stomach worms, as had been widely believed, the use of face coverings was ordered. But since there weren't even sufficient masks for health workers, who fought on the front lines, there certainly weren't enough to go around for the general population.
~ Isabel Allende
Mascaras' physique, in terms of symmetry and size, and his style in the ring really made him stand out. He really did live up to his name 'The Man of 1,000 Masks.' I think he had 1,000 masks and more. You would really never see him wear the same outfit twice... He was always very, very colorful.
~ Rey Mysterio
We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.
~ Suzanne Young
There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
~ Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, "This is who I am…and I am okay." This is simple…not easy.
~ David W. Earle
I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
~ Charles Bukowski
The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
~ Charles Bukowski
Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.
~ Michael Stuhlbarg
I usually treat myself to a monthly facial, but I also love masks.
~ Behati Prinsloo
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
~ Tom Robbins
Maskenfreiheit. It means "the freedom conferred by masks.
~ Kim Gordon
It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks.
~ Kim Newman
When guilty shame wears a mask of curiosity, men are turned inside out, becoming strangers to themselves.
~ Kobo Abe
a nightmarish thing that frightens Love, haunting her, weighing her down, the thing that she's supposed to love, the way the world initially instructs children to love clowns even though we all know deep down that they're creepy, old, puffy men in masks leering at children.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won't like what you'd become.
~ George R.R. Martin
For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.
~ Gerald Morris
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
~ William Shakespeare
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'
~ Gilbert Gottfried
During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
~ Xavier Forneret