Quotes About Masking

That mask of Wilder's

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it.

And the things you said, the walk from chapel to the schoolhouse, your backpack, tests, these were a bridge running above the rushing water of what you actually felt. The goal was: learn to ignore what's down below. Fine if you met someone else who was the same as you, but you had to realize that nothing another person could do would make you feel better about any of it.

When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

I walk in the Rain, so people won't see my tears.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I think most people are really two people, the person on the inside that we keep hidden, and the person on the outside that we dress up and fix up and show to the world as a form of protection.

this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would

Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

He drinks the vodka. He watches television. And every passing face is masked, mouths and nostrils concealed behind filters.

They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.

yüzünü gözünü renkli toprakla boyar. Hem ilkel kabilelerin adamlar?na benzemek, hem de kendi benliÄŸini maskelemek için yapar bunu.

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb. [...] The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.