Quotes About Masking

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una

I laughed because, as everyone knows, laughing is a great way to disguise heavy breathing.

We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness, the spiritual equivalent of asthma.

El hombre no estaba en el Silencio, solo era muy, muy, muy, bueno mostrando solo lo que deseaba

We're only pretending everything is normal because we don't know what else to do.

It's been a while since someone last made her laugh. Since she last laughed without deciding beforehand that laughing was the smart thing to do.

She doesn't let anyone see it...but on the other side of that door, I somehow get the feeling that she's quietly falling apart.

It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.

She had no idea why it was important and her heart was kicking like a hare. But she had been trained to show a still face so she raised her own mantle and looked back.

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

Hayata dayanamayan her insan gibi yap?l?r oyunda:-m?? gibi yap?l?r.

Allahtan kimse görmüyordu yapt?klar?m?. ??imde de bunun için yaln?zd?m; herkese, istedi?im yan?m? gösteriyordum böylece.

I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

I have never been able to meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.

Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. Pero son como una vaca pastando tranquila que, de repente, levanta la cola y descarga un latigazo sobre el tábano. Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza. Recuerdo que se me llegaba a erizar el cabello de terror al pensar en que este carácter innato es una condición esencial para que el ser humano sobreviva. Al pensarlo, perdía cualquier esperanza sobre la humanidad.

What a long time it can take to become the person one has always been! How often in the process we mask ourselves in faces that are not our own. How much dissolving and shaking of ego we must endure before we discover our deep identity—the true self within every human being that is the seed of authentic vocation.

At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing

Hay hombres que entran aquí, sonrientes, con los zapatos muy limpios y los calcetines empolvados. Pero cuando se descalzan, sus pies huelen a rayos. Esas son las personas que ocultan cosas. Tienen secretos apestosos e intentan ocultarlos, como intentan ocultar el hedor de sus pies.

What we can't bear to know or feel, we often find a way to hide from ourselves, and hide well.

But what I found out that summer . . . was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.