Quotes About The Masks We Wear

#1. No matter the masks we wear, we always end up together.

Jodi Meadows

#2. 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

#3. And I think of us, all the people, and the masks we wear, the masks we hide behind and the masks that reveal. I imagine people pretending to be what they truly are, and discovering that other people are so much more and so much less than they imagined themselves to be or present themselves as. And

Neil Gaiman

#4. We become the masks we wear.

Brent Weeks

#5. We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

Jenji Kohan

#6. All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

Tom Robbins

#8. We all wear masks, but it's the one we choose to wear that makes a difference.

Kim Yannayon

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.

Pat Conroy

#13. 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

#14. We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

Andre Berthiaume

#15. 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

#16. I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Paul Reubens

#17. Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Who wears masks?'
'Bank robbers?'
'No.'
'Really ugly people?'
'No.'
'Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.'
'Yes! They do!' He flung his arms wide in delight.
'So that's important?'
'Not even a little bit. But it's true.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Countless human beings wear masks which they hope will cover up what they dislike about themselves.

Eugene Kennedy

#20. sometimes we wear masks so long
to hide what we truly feel
that those layers become
an extra skin, a part of our identity

R H Sin

#21. People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Robert Greene

#22. In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.

Clarence John Laughlin

#23. All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.

Gerald Scarfe

#24. The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

Marie Lu

#25. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#26. I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

R.J. Palacio

#27. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Adyashanti

#29. In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.

Chris Jericho

#30. How many of them have secrets they don't want the world to know? How many of them wear masks wherever they go? We're anything but typical.

Kelsey Sutton

#31. We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear our masks and play our roles
And teach each other how to love.

Kate McGahan

#32. And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

Gerald Scarfe

#33. In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

Chuck Klosterman

#34. 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

#35. The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear,

Marianne Williamson

#36. Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#37. The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

Martin Bashir

#38. Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.

CrimethInc.

#39. People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

Lionel Suggs

#40. They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.

Benjamin Percy

#41. Those masks we wear
not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.

Basith

#42. '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