Quotes About Masks

the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.

The face beneath the mask has to grow seamlessly into the mask.

You often feel that people change when you go through the most challenging tough phases in your life. In reality, the people don't change but their masks fall off to reveal their true faces. The best part of worst times in life is that you get your chance to see the people in their true colors. Once you see their true colors in the naked light, you should never forget those, and importantly, you mustn't ever try to repaint them when the times will change.

He said he was Lord Vile. - Skulduggery

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

It's very different to live with a mask.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Most people in New York City had started wearing masks, to keep the pollution out, but also to protect privacy.

You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced--they're, like, multiple personalities.

I use knowing things about people as an excuse to keep them from knowing me.

You never know what someone's hiding. We all hide ourselves when we need to.

The truth is we all want to be known. And we're simultaneously afraid of it. We want to be unmasked, and the person who can unmask us wins our respect.

Carny people'd punch you in the face before they'd let you tell them your troubles and strangle their own selves before they'd tell you theirs.

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and act in a different way, everyone carries an invisible mask.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.