Quotes About Masquerade Masks

#1. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The

Stephen King

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#3. The mask in which you choose to disguise yourself uncovers who you subconsciously are or want to be. Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. A mask tempts the wearer to play out carnal fantasies and, come daylight, the perfume of a stranger's sex on your flesh and clothes can be blamed or thanked on the metamorphosis stirred by the mystery of the mask.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.

Julia Quinn

#6. Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help ...

Edith Stein

#7. Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

Anaximander

#8. The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese

#9. How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

#10. For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

Ryan Hall

#11. Everything you see in the world around you is content of some kind. The clothes you wear, the songs you sing, the ads you watch, the food you buy, the tunes you hum and the memes you share. Everything is a signal that sends a message.

David Amerland

#12. I'm scared to death to fly commercial ... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Brett Hull

#13. If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Dolores Cannon

#15. Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today's world, everyone wears a mask.

Chloe Thurlow

#16. Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. Being watched in the act of coitus is disconcerting, even for the most brazen. Yet, more than merely making the experience tolerable, masks reveal an innate longing to play to the crowd, to be naked, sweating, screaming in orgasm.

Chloe Thurlow

#18. In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.

Lionel Barber

#19. Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.

John N. Gray

#21. No man can know his deliverer, nor yet the thief of his soul. Their faces are covered; they swirl in the mob at the masquerade ball. Wine flows, and dance follows dance, and we are never certain of their names until that Midnight when all masks are removed

Robert V.S. Redick

#22. For so long, I was the one with his heart. I just need to see where it is now. - Quinn

Jessi Kirby