Top 100 Quotes About A Mask
#1. I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
Michael Vartan
#2. I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
Rick Baker
#3. Because it has become a tradition to wear a mask, it is the only thing that shows. The truth is blurry to those who use their eyes to see.
Lionel Suggs
#4. Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
Joseph Campbell
#5. Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. long, pointed nose jutted forth from its cheeks, its face more leather than stone. Like a mask. Rye did not come from a home with many rules, but the ones she lived by were absolute and unbreakable. The first House Rule flashed through her mind. HOUSE
Paul Durham
#7. I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.
Jennifer Aniston
#8. A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.
Joe Abercrombie
#9. Veturius is a Mask like the rest of us, yes. Bold, brave, strong, swift. But those were afterthoughts for him. Elias sees people as they should be, not as they are. He laughs at himself. He gives of himself - in everything he does. [...] He's the things that I can't be. He's good.
Sabaa Tahir
#10. It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.
Lionel Suggs
#11. So I wore the lesbian comments like a mask that kept everything I really loved private and safe and beyond the dirty grasp of the people who didn't know the real, true me and never would.
Matthew Quick
#12. If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
Banksy
#13. The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is often a mask, perhaps unconscious, for underlying anti-intellectualism or antiscientism.
George Gaylord Simpson
#14. Hypocrisy is saying we believe something, then living as if we didn't. Hypocrisy is preaching and not practicing. It says do as I say not as I do. It's insincerity wearing a mask of sincerity.
Stephen Altrogge
#16. I find myself, wearing a mask, pretend play acting when I go out, it's the only way I can cope with it, then when I'm home I'm exhausted and stressed from trying to be someone I'm not. I over analyze the conversations I had, thinking about what I have said and done.
Tina J. Richardson
#19. Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.
Alexandra Robbins
#20. You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
Pat Barker
#21. Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. I am always wearing a mask, playing a character. Perhaps because I'm afraid of what will be under the mask, something ugly maybe or, worse, nothing at all. The
Anna Snoekstra
#23. Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.
Nalini Singh
#24. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
Anna Maria Chavez
#25. You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to [the lyrics]; I wanted to squirm.
Yannis Philippakis
#26. Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today's world, everyone wears a mask.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. You are a mask; behind the mask there is the universe! When you are enlightened, mask goes, you go, you disappear and people does not see you anymore, they see the universe when they look at you! They talk to universe when they talk with you! You are a mask till you are enlightened!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#31. The disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask.
Elena Ferrante
#32. The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.
Anne Bosworth Greene
#33. Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
Dean Koontz
#34. There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
William Whewell
#37. Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
Frank Herbert
#38. We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
R.C. Sproul
#39. Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
Edwidge Danticat
#40. Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
Keanu Reeves
#41. For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
Jose Mourinho
#42. It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#43. It is jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, anger, violence; it is a thousand and one things except love. It masquerades as love - because all these things are so ugly they cannot exist without a mask.
Osho
#44. The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing - it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.
Jean-Francois Cope
#46. Wear a mask long enough and they grow with your skin. Try to take it off and you bleed.
Tom Barlow
#47. If we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect.
Donald Miller
#48. I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
Zendaya
#49. I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!
Tommy McDonald
#50. When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#51. Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'
Gail Sheehy
#52. I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
Alicia Keys
#53. I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
Edwidge Danticat
#54. Luther says that vocations are a mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly secular society
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#55. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
#56. It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.
Ellen Schreiber
#57. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#58. There's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me ...
John Geddes
#59. The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#60. There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
Bruce Catton
#61. A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
Oscar Wilde
#62. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.
Ashim Shanker
#63. Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.
Rachel Simmons
#65. What did you do to this?' he asked in a horrorstruck voice.
'It didn't want to come out of the dashboard.'
'So you felt the need to torture it?'
'You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally.'
He shook his head, his face a mask of faux tragedy. 'You killed it.
Stephenie Meyer
#66. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.
Chloe Thurlow
#67. Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
William Goldman
#68. Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
#69. I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
Ed Belfour
#70. I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.
Ray Toro
#71. A mask, no matter how beautiful, is still a mask
Cathryn Louis
#72. I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.
Steve Brown
#73. I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.
I want to exorcise the demons from your past.
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.
Matthew Bellamy
#74. She wasn't wearing a mask! The monstrous green face was her face. She wasn't wearing a monster costume. None of the Horrors were wearing costumes, I realized. I stepped back, raising my hands in horror as if trying to shield myself.
R.L. Stine
#75. It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot ... or cosmic rays or a power ring ... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.
Mark Millar
#76. An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
George Orwell
#77. In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.
Frances FitzGerald
#78. At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a
beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I
don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university
students marching with you. Toward
A necessity which is not love but is a name.
Jack Spicer
#80. Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
Orson Scott Card
#81. It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it's an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn't life a play? Don't I play it well?
Ray Bradbury
#82. She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together ... Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride
Emmuska Orczy
#83. A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.
Jarius Raphel
#84. But why he said so strange a thing No Warder dared to ask: For he to whom a watcher's doom Is given as his task, Must set a lock upon his lips, And make his face a mask.
Oscar Wilde
#85. Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.
Phil McGraw
#86. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
Jean Sasson
#87. His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and his whimsy. He looked arrogant.
He fit right in.
S.G. Night
#88. Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.
Cyril Connolly
#89. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#90. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.
Frederic Laloux
#91. All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
John Dillinger
#92. Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.
J.M. Darhower
#93. America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
Malcolm X
#94. When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
Rick Baker
#95. I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
Warwick Davis
#96. We need to have a mask that we never take off.
Sui Ishida
#97. One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered ... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
Austin Grossman
#98. Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
Sue Grafton
#99. Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
Doris Lessing
#100. In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
George Santayana
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