Quotes About Masks

Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. I didn't mean... No one ever does. Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

There are prisons within prisons, and skins within skins. You can't always see who someone is just by looking in his eyes. Sometimes, others are there.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

Behind every mask... is another mask.

Everyone wears a mask. I just chose to create my own.

We all wear masks. Mine are just better-crafted.

Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.

The men's tanned faces, the faces of the women, bright with cosmetics, all suddenly appeared similar, as though wearing identical masks; hard, smiling, decorative, devoid of feeling. Not one of the seemed capable of expressing affection or pity or any of the softer emotions. They frightened her, these gay, hard, animated, worldly masks; she would always be a stranger among them, lost, ill-at-ease, out of place.

but were actually heroes: people who, having lost their moorings in the inauthentic world we call normal life, were now on a perilous journey to discover what the world might be like without the masks of false consciousness that the rest of us habitually wear.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

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I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.

Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.

I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify.

The removing of the 'tangles'is a process of liberation from our complexes and illusions and from the way in which we identify with the roles we play in life, with the masks within us and with our idols, etc. It is a 'release' according to the etymology of the word, a liberation and awakening of hidden potential.

You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.