Top 100 Quotes About Masks
#1. Being a playwright, a film producer, a minister, a general; these are all masks one wears over one's face in the society; masks don't mean anything, for a man is what he is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, all threatening the incipient life.
Gilles Neret
#3. the locale. Their faces were pulled tight, more like masks than faces, really. They moved slowly,
Larry Weiner
#5. Time doesn't heal the wounds; it masks them. It takes them and makes them something else. Some scars always remain. Some wounds always remain open and exposed.
Joann Buchanan
#6. Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?
Desiderius Erasmus
#7. Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The
Megan Marshall
#8. Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.
Patti Roberts
#9. They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.
Benjamin Percy
#10. Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
#11. Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#12. The things we see are only masks for the things we can't see.
Anthony Doerr
#13. As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
Mark Twain
#14. These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at Fate's bidding. Their followers take comfort in thinking that their every deed is meant to be; it excuses all manner of meanness.
Sarah Micklem
#15. Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.
Christopher Barzak
#16. We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people ... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.
Malin Akerman
#17. What do you have there?"
Mouse perked up at her interest. "I'm making ski masks to have on hand for bank robberies. Last night I finished the fingerless mermaid gloves for Eve. She likes her fingers free for gunplay."
Mouse's needles clicked together in a peaceful rhythm.
Debra Anastasia
#18. Those masks we wear
not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.
Basith
#19. Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Salman Rushdie
#20. I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.
James A. Baldwin
#21. Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
Gore Vidal
#22. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie
#23. Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.
Rajneesh
#24. Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.
Lawrence Miles
#25. 'Luchadores, mil mascaras' ... a thousand masks. I see a lot of those in Jets colors. And then the Hispanic fans of other teams, they'll wear them in their colors. And they're like, 'You're our guy, Sanchez, but I'm a Steelers fan.'
Mark Sanchez
#26. White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
Edith Sitwell
#27. My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Dana Goodyear
#28. Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.
Kahlil Gibran
#29. There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.
Laini Taylor
#30. A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
J.B. Priestley
#31. Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.
Norman Lock
#32. It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.
Judd Nelson
#33. She was not crying
Which surprised me very much
But I understand now
That she had found places
For her melancholy
That were behind more masks
Than only her eyes
Jonathan Safran Foer
#34. So it became,
the law of universe,
to have the,
profoundest,
of the words,
cloaked in the,
darkest of the masks.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#35. All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
Steven Millhauser
#36. Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#37. All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today's world, everyone wears a mask.
Chloe Thurlow
#39. Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
#40. There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But ... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.
Marie Lu
#41. Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.
Sylvia Plath
#42. We all wear masks, but it's the one we choose to wear that makes a difference.
Kim Yannayon
#43. One group is singing in the middle of the grass, still wearing their masks. Their voices blend beautifully but with all their swaying and kicking of debris, they look more like drunken pirates after a raid.
Susan Ee
#44. To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.
Flora Jessop
#46. Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean
#47. It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
Nadine Gordimer
#48. Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.
Craig Ferguson
#49. I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.
Eva Herzigova
#50. My wild man," I whispered. "My snake charmer."
He closed his eyes and shoved his face in my neck, groaning, "Fuck, Tess."
I turned my head so my lips were at his ear and no lies, no masks, no bullshit, no games, I kept whispering when I told him, "I love you, Brock.
Kristen Ashley
#51. If only,' Shiroyama dreams, 'human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.
David Mitchell
#52. Older folks usually wear their own masks when they deal with children, but Lewis opened up and let go. He accepted who he was and what the world around him was like, and decided he would only see the good in all the mess.
Cameron Jace
#53. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.
Donna Lynn Hope
#54. The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
Ben Shapiro
#55. Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.
Chloe Thurlow
#56. Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.
Gregory Frost
#57. And when I feel
the masks beneath
crumble and fade with
time I build new ones
to replace the old.
"Masks"- Sins Within
Shay Leigh
#58. In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.
Katherine Howe
#59. At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.
Pedro Winter
#60. People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#61. The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.
Jose Rizal
#62. illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.
William Ritter
#63. Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.
Pat Conroy
#64. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.
Tan Twan Eng
#65. Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
Sun Myung Moon
#66. Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.
John Doran
#67. As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
Moran Atias
#68. Let go, let go, let go,
Just let it go,
Let the tears come out,
Stop fighting the tears back,
Stop wearing different masks,
Let yourself be seen,
Let yourself be the real you,
Julie Jewels Smoot
#69. The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined.
Jerzy Grotowski
#70. People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. Mal adjusted his hood to better hide his face and tipped up his mask, then reached forward and did the same with mine. He leaned in. Our jackal masks bumped snouts.
I started to laugh.
"Next time, different costumes," he grumbled.
"Bigger hats?
Leigh Bardugo
#72. 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
#73. There are three masks:
the one we think we are,
the one we really are,
and the one we have in common
Jacques Lecoq
#74. Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
Jon Foreman
#75. I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe
But now I'm alone in an empty room
Staring down immaculate doom
Messy
Gayle Forman
#76. He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
Nicholas Sparks
#77. And that was what all the expressions felt like - masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.
Helen Oyeyemi
#78. We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
Andre Berthiaume
#79. Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone
Mario Puzo
#80. Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value
Esther Hicks
#82. 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
#83. We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities becomes our whole lives, and we start to believe them - even more than others do.
Mo Gawdat
#84. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.
Colson Whitehead
#85. No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.
Ron Luciano
#86. The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there, but we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because of the masks we wear, Or we nod and smile the social while, and we say we're doing well, But we break our herts! For the things we must not tell.
Henry Lawson
#87. Mastery occurs when you remove all the filters, masks, and obstacles so that you may more clearly see and connect to your power within-your divinity, your soul.
Peggy Sealfon
#88. Because anger has too many faces, too many masks. This type of anger is the kind you don't recognize until it's too late
Rachel Van Dyken
#89. The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art.
Edward Butscher
#90. My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#91. Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
John Stuart Blackie
#92. The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
Debbie Ford
#93. ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.
John Fowles
#94. Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Washington Irving
#95. Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
Brandon Mull
#96. Power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Michel Foucault
#98. Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.
Lara Biyuts
#99. Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
Albert Camus
#100. My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
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