Quotes About Masking

We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but people sometimes mask their insecurities with confidence.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

Taking the body from under the boards, he sat it on a dining-chair, but left the carrier bag over its head as he did not want to look at the face.

You have got to abstract yourself so that you present a faceless picture to society.

If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

Abject misery lies not in what the blanket reveals, but in what it hides.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

I believed in words, even if they only masked the uncertainty of time passing.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

On the outside, there is all the coquettish pantomime; inside there is the desperate, longing woman.

The everywhere-promoted "masking" quickly became a fetish. In all cultures and at all times, masks have represented de-individuation and dehumanization. Thieves wear masks. Executioners wear black masks so their victims cannot see them. Torturers are masked.

it can be masked with a veneer of legality, it can be cloaked with plausible deniability. It is always possible to justify each incremental step.

The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.

When I go to parties, people seem to be enjoying themselves. But when I look beneath the surface, I see so much anxiety and suffering there.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Maskirovka (masquerade) is a technique developed by the Russian military in the early part of the last century that can be summarized by three words: deception, denial, and disinformation.

He feels sadness more acturely than others do. He's reached his limit, but…he puts on a smile and goes out alone. He's that kind of idiot. So I'm sure he's alone now!

The worst feeling is saying you're ok, holding back the tears; pretending to be a happy person; while dying on the inside."

I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it

Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it.