Quotes About Masks

Few people in our culture have the courage to be themselves. Most people adopt roles, play games, wear masks, or put up facades.

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

It's the African-American experience. You've got to wear different masks. When you're in the hood, if you stand out, you get picked on for being weak. Sometimes you have to hide your intelligence. In front of your boys, you might put on a bit of bravado, be a little bit tougher.

When I'm on set, I'm on set, and I focus and get the work done. Then when I'm done, I kind of have this button that I switch. I'm constantly switching this button and putting on different masks, and that kind of keeps me organized.

I am convinced none of us shows the world a true face. We keep that safely tucked away.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.

Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.

Margherita's father always said a person only truly revealed themselves when in disguise.

The smart kids think I have no shape. But I do. I'm just keeping it hidden. Because who wants them to see?

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Las manos de los hombres no saben usar máscaras. Los hombres ponen duras las facciones hasta para sentirse guapos, pero las manos siempre los delatan. Cuando unas manos de hombre no te dicen nada, lo más probable es que el fulano sea un pendejito sin carácter.

Grey faces in libraries around the world mask inner lives of considerable emotional volatility. We know

even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

Some people are so fake, when they die another person's life flashes before their eyes

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them. I didn't want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.

Dada is for dreams, colourful paper masks, kettle drums, sound poems, concretions, poem statiques, for things that are not far from picking flowers and making bouquets.

All societies end up wearing masks.