Quotes About Behind The Mask

#1. To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Midori Snyder

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

Gary L. Thomas

#3. You can see from his form, posture, and the lazy way he carries his muscled body, that behind the mask is a man who sees more pussy than a pack of Tampax. Godfrey

L.J. Shen

#4. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.

Vicki Pettersson

#5. Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held.

Cynthia Voigt

#6. For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Martina Mcbride

#8. Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#9. It was not the mask I was afraid of ... but of what lay behind the mask. The eternal source of all fear, all horror, all real evil, man himself

John Fowles

#10. 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

#11. You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.

Helena Bonham Carter

#12. It's amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

Philip Roth

#13. Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

#14. It's very much an exploration of the human condition and how different people react and respond to their lives. And what they present to the world, in terms of who they are as characters and what is going on behind the mask, in terms of what demons their holding ... and how that interacts.

Sean Mahon

#15. Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Robert H. Schuller

#17. It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

Jeremy Bulloch

#18. Finding true love starts with taking inventory of our strengths and weaknesses, quirks and traits, hopes and dreams, and getting to know the person behind the mask.

Debra Fileta

#19. Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

John Bowlby

#20. How long are we going to complacently allow ourselves to sleep behind the mask of mediocrity? To be asleep to our magnificence?

Angelica Jayne Taggart

#21. We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilization and he will remain there for untold generations to come.

Michael Talbot

#22. I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask ...

Philip G. Zimbardo

#23. The black mask, with its slittled forehead and thick, snoutlike breathing apparatus, covered the face of the man he knew as Kylo Ren. Once, he had known the face behind the mask. Once, he has known the man himself. Now, to Lor San Tekka, only the mask was left. Metal instead of a man.

Alan Dean Foster

#24. She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.

Jodi Picoult

#25. CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.

Joseph Campbell

#26. I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

Veronica Roth

#27. 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

#28. From Secret Man

The man of autumn,
Behind its melancholy mask,
Will laugh in the brown grass,
Will shout from the tower's rim.

Wallace Stevens

#29. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.

Melissa Foster

#30. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#31. I say what I think," said the woman. "My people don't hide behind masks."
"You certainly do," said Awt, equably. "Your mask is rudeness and offensively plain speech. We only see how you wish to appear, not your true self. Mask or not, Watchman Inarakhat has been more honest than you.

Ann Leckie

#32. I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

Stephen Dillane

#33. Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#34. His facial hair served not just as a calendar but also as a mask, absorbing the stares of others while allowing him a little privacy in plain sight. "I can hide behind it, I can play to stereotypes and assumptions. One of the benefits of being labeled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior.

Michael Finkel

#35. All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

Emily Thorne

#36. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

#37. Loved this side of him. The happy go lucky, making jokes, sort of guy. It made me even hotter to know behind that mask there was an animal waiting to devour me.

Alaska Angelini

#38. Why not just go to the cops? I mean that's why they are there right? You know to protect and to serve." Emily quipped causing Leah to mask a laugh behind a cough.

Ginny Atkinson

#39. And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change
- Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt

#40. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

Veronica Roth

#41. 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

#42. Of course Dexter always applauds the charitable spirit. But in general, I am so very much in favor of it because it is nearly always a warning sign that something nefarious, wicked, and playful is going on behind the Mother Teresa mask.

Jeff Lindsay

#43. You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask.

Michael Kroft

#44. A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

Susan B. Anthony

#45. To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don't have to feel the shame behind it.

Neil Strauss

#46. Halt!" Marco remained hidden behind the door. "This area is restricted." The voice sounded distorted. It must have been an Outsider in a mask.

Dayna Lorentz

#47. I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

Bob Dylan

#48. It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#49. This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

John T. Flynn

#50. The sins after the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual pride, the mazes of self-deception, and the subtle mockeries of hypocrisy where mask hides behind mask behind mask and reality is lost altogether.

Alan W. Watts

#51. There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?

Terry Pratchett

#52. All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?

Thomas Ligotti

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

William Golding

#54. 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

#55. You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

Betty Friedan

#56. but behind her mask, she smiled flirtatiously at him, letting the warm sensations spread all through her, from her hand to her cheeks. The

Melanie Dickerson

#57. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Thomas S. Monson

#58. When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.

Rory Culkin

#59. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Obafemi Awolowo

#60. Everyone feels like they can hide behind a mask or a costume, but in the morning, they still wake up as the person beneath the mask.

Kandi Steiner

#61. There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

Dion Fortune

#62. The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

Frantz Fanon

#63. And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a person who can't express himself.

Deyth Banger

#64. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

George Eliot

#65. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

Herman Melville

#66. Because I'm pretty, everybody thinks I'm stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you.

Monica Bellucci

#67. Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Deepak Chopra

#68. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Benito Mussolini

#69. Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

Sylvia Plath

#70. The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty ... a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

#71. No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Seneca The Younger

#72. her smile was always to me like the shining out of an angel's face from behind a mask where brave struggles with heavy sorrows had left deep imprints of mortality.

Megan Marshall

#73. He shed his name, as you know, within a few short years of that conversation and created the mask of "Lord Voldemort" behind which he has been hidden for so long.

J.K. Rowling

#74. Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

Edwidge Danticat

#75. The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#76. Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep behind a superficial mask of cheerful sarcasm.

Matt Haig

#77. You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Terry Bradshaw

#78. This is an age when men hide their deepest fears and instincts behind a mask of rationality. Mankind has become a herd of sheep which does not believe in the existence of wolves.

Chet Williamson