Quotes About Masking

The hardest part of acting like you don't care, is knowing how much you actually do.

You asked me what was wrong, I smiled and said nothing, when you turned around and a tear came down and I whispered to myself... everything is.

Sometimes you just have to smile, pretend everything's okay hold back the tears and just walk away.

The worst kind of pain is keeping yourself laughing to avoid the tears from falling.

The hardest part in life is trying to show the smile you know is fake and to hide the tears that wont stop.

I put on this happy face like, 'Hey, everything is cool...' but the pitiful truth is there is this little something inside me that just won't let this pain go.

Pretending not to care but actually wanting to cry.

I should be an actor because I'm pretty dang good at hiding the pain.

Sometimes we :) to hide :( Sometimes we :D to hide :'(

I'm tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I've been smiling, but inside I'm dying.

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93.   Yiddish's

referred to the Ghetto, a Yiddish term, sitre akhre, for the dim world where demons dwell and zombies wear a husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light.

We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

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

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.

All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul and they will never notice how broken you really are.

Nobody knows the real me. Nobody knows how many times I've sat in my room and cried, how many times I've lost hope, how many times I've been let down. Nobody knows how many times I've had to hold back to tears, how many times I've felt likeI'm about to snap but don't just for the sake of others. Nobody knows the thoughts that have gone through my head whenever I'm sad, and how horrible they really are ...

The best time to CRY is under the SHOWER, this way no one will ever know that you were SAD.

You cannot always hide the pain in the laugh you fake.

She hurts and she crys but you can't see the anxiety in her eyes because she just smiles.