Quotes About Masking

I give him a smile I don't really own.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.

Juliette Stray is a bleach-blond Mamie Van Doren knockoff. She kisses cheeks left and right as she moves through the crowd. A big smile masks someone trying to look way too nice for it to be anything but protective coloring—like the pretty stripes on a coral snake. Better keep an eye on her. If things go bad, she'll be the one who puts the knife in.

I'm fine. Really," I lie.

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

Da schlug er jäh die Hände vors Gesicht, wie er so kniete, um nichts zu sehen mehr nach diesem Lächeln.

some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.

when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

We have a continual desire to communicate our feelings and yet at the same time the need to conceal them for proper social functioning.

You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Jovial" had always been a pretext - the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

Is it still a lie, if you're masking what matters but what you're saying is technically true?

Is it still a lie," Jameson asked loftily, "if you're masking what matters, but what you're saying is technically true?

I know there's more in there, probably years of shit you've been smiling away and keeping down.

She dried her tears, and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow; Nor did discern how all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow. With that sweet look and lively tone, And bright eye shining all the day, They could not guess, at midnight lone How she would weep the time away.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

We live in the age of the secret and of fear. You must have two faces. Show one to the crowd, and keep the other for yourself and your Creator. If you want to keep your eyes, your ears and your tongue, forget that you have them.