Quotes About Masks

was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill

Seattle, like many other places, became a masked city. Red Cross volunteers made tens of thousands of masks. All police wore them. Soldiers marched through the city's downtown wearing them.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

You can't keep hiding behind your masks of glass. Because eventually, you're just going to either shatter or completely crack.

People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and pain. Well I've tried that I've tried hiding my sorrows and covering the sadness in smiles and what I've learned is that when it hurts this much inside your heart always has a way of showing it no matter how many masks you wear.

The masks that they wear becomes their own betrayal.

I don't know which face to talk to, since you have two.

Girls know how to fake smiles and guys know how to fake feelings.

Halloween is day when you can pretend to be something you're not, and not get judged for it.

In a world full of masks, costumes and facades...weaving in and out of the traffic called life I still maintain my soul and the characteristic threads that set me apart from others...am I the only one that thinks like this?

Be the person you intended to be before you intended to be the person you are not. It is time to seek authenticity in ourselves and remove all masks.

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Life is full of fake people.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

People don't really change their attitude. They simply change their masks.

Prince d'Agrigente or the Prince de Cystria—whose masks of flesh and absent or vulgar intelligence had transformed them into rather ordinary specimens, to the point where I ended up feeling that I had landed on the Guermantes doormat not as upon the supposed threshold but at the terminus of the magic world of names.