Quotes About Masking

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

Instinctively, he had already trained himself in the habit of pretending that he was someone, so it would not be discovered that he was no one.

the smile on his lips didn't reach his eyes.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.

The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise...

I don't really like them, either (but I pretend I do).

adamant that Carl never let on that he felt his cover was

There were things that nothing could make right. They stayed hidden as black holes inside of you. You went on the best you could, pretending everything was fine.

When I came back out five minutes later, even my pet parakeet wouldn't have recognized me. Of course, I didn't have a pet parakeet. But never mind that.

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

I became expert at making myself invisible.

III. We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. —FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Pride comes in handy for masking one's feelings?it doesn't stop you from feeling them