Quotes About Masking

Accordingly, I believe that preaching forgiveness is not only hypocritical and futile but also actively dangerous. It masks the compulsion to repeat.

As she never wanted me to be the way I really was, I had to actively conceal my authentic feelings from her.

It was as if she had a murderous needle somewhere in her lungs, and by breathing carefully, she could avoid feeling it. But every once in a while she had to take a deep breath, and it was still there.

Todo el mundo está cansado. Lo que pasa es que algunos aprenden a actuar como si no lo estuvieran.

It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.

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

Her veins were never open. He heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted in puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks.

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal.

Everyone is asleep or pretending to be.

He used language as a place for us to hide.

I've been faking it all my life. I'm good at it.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

It masks its hatred of dissenters from its utopian ideology in the guise of helping and healing.

a menudo oculto riéndome mi absoluta falta de alegría. Es algo que aprendí a hacer cuando me di cuenta de que las criaturas que lo viven todo tan intensamente como yo y no son capaces de cambiar esta característica de su naturaleza, tienen que disimularla lo mejor posible.»

Girls without mothers either tried too hard or not hard enough; as they got older, they sometimes wore extra makeup, as if it could mask the fact they didn't know what to do, how to act.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

furious growth of Covid- 19 cases in those parts of the US where many people regarded masking as an infringement of their individual liberties suggests that it is morbid individualism that turns crises into tragedies.

Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth.

I don't have to smile and pretend I'm fine even though inside I feel like I'm breaking into a thousand tiny fragments too small ever to be put together again.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.