Quotes About Masking

You don't know what it's like to have to hide all the time.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

I'm just very good at pretending.

And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

We have learned to limit our emotions to such an extent that we won't let others in and we can't get out. We invest an inordinate amount of time and energy maintaining a façade, an image to hide behind.

The important function of an American white sauce was not to enhance but to blanket.

That was the thing about polish. It might be pretty, but it was fundamentally obstructive, deflecting scrutiny, masking honest emotion. If she

You're sad but you hold everything back...

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

That was the funny thing about smiles--if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.

I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.

You act like you're okay, Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown, And smile at the same time.

Aggressivität und Ablehnung kommen wie die anderen harten, rauen und bitteren Stammespraktiken in der Maske des Schutzgewährens und Abschirmens der "Gemeinschaft" daher.

We colluded in this way: as long as I didn't announce that I was a kid, he wouldn't rise up as a parent, and for an hour, we could both have a little respite from our roles.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.