Mask Comes Off Quotes

#1. A man is never more himself than when he is alone ... That is when the mask comes off. Shut the door, and the persona drops away. Alone, you reveal your soul.

J. Kenner

#2. All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

Jessiqua Wittman

#3. Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men.

Pierce Brown

#4. It's not something you can put your finger on, like height (though he's taller than me) or strength (though he's stronger than me), but there's something there. This power. Like being ordinary is just a mask he wears.

Alexis Hall

#5. Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Alex Gaskarth

#6. The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.

Gregory Benford

#7. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

Colum McCann

#8. James said you called yourself a nameless girl... Oh, nameless girl... When will you learn to trust me?"
I turned my hand over to find the Black Knife mask.
My heart tumbled and twisted. "You?" Tobiah was Black Knife?

Jodi Meadows

#9. God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Georges Bernanos

#10. Are you saying you don't want anything from me?"
"I want this. I want our arrangement. I want you ... " I sucked in a breath, feeling my control slip. " ... to fuck it out of me."
"Fuck what out, Jocelyn?"
Couldn't he see it? Was my mask really that good? I shrugged. "All the nothing

Samantha Young

#11. A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#12. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Eva Hoffman

#13. The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask.

Patrick Roy

#14. That's what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.

Ryu Murakami

#15. She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#16. The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

James Ensor

#17. Keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

Emma McLaughlin

#18. Be a man! Put on a mask.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#19. Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

Soren Kierkegaard

#20. The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

Michael Moorcock

#21. A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

Gary L. Thomas

#22. Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

Charles Spurgeon

#23. Do not hide behind any mask

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Dennis Potter

#25. PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)

An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask

Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#26. I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

Luke Perry

#27. The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

William Golding

#28. The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Ameya Agrawal

#29. Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.

Christina Zilber

#30. She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

Megan Whalen Turner

#31. The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.

J.M. Darhower

#32. Satan was seen buying a cafe au lait of Friday the thirteenth in the year of the dog. He was wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and a monocle on a gold chain the color of the sun. The lights of the casino filled his good eye. Our days are numbered, our weeks are fading away.

Michael Bible

#33. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#34. I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#35. In reality, Eduardo hoped the mask would make him appear vulnerable and self conscious, like a wounded animal these stupid women would fight each other over to mend.

Raquel Cepeda

#36. Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

Richard Bach