Quotes About Masking

They smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling: it's not joy, it's pleading.

Consider the possibility that what he says may be projection on his part, and that his sensitivity to women's issues is merely a means of masking his own rocky history and questionable intentions.

Having and defending and celebrating the Bible instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying the Bible, masks an enormous amount of nonreading.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Thus death is only an illusion, a veil, masking betimes the continuity of life.

She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?

While masking was sometimes crucial to survival during the period of racial apartheid, those strategies destroy our capacity to be truth tellers when we adopt them in contemporary life.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn't contentment, but survival.

We're all scared. Some of us are just better at faking it.

Egotism is not a sign of self-esteem. It masks feelings of inferiority, which is why these Mr. Bigs denigrate others and often have unquenchable ambition.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.

That old saw about smiling when you're sad left out the real point- that it kills you to do it.

You smile, but it never really reaches the eyes.

There are no truly strong people. Only people who pretend to be strong.

Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.