Take Off The Mask Quotes

#1. I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!

Jocelyn Soriano

#2. I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana

Susan Kay

#3. It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

Taylor Schilling

#4. Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. Take special note of how people respond to stressful situations - often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment.

Robert Greene

#7. In the dance of life, pull down your own oxygen mask first, then take a deep breath and help everyone else. They'll thank you for it, believe me.

John C. Parkin

#8. 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

#9. Wear a mask long enough and they grow with your skin. Try to take it off and you bleed.

Tom Barlow

#10. Take away
this mask of flesh and bone
see me
for my soul
alone

Jay Asher

#11. 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

#12. Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom.

Rick Warren

#13. Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

Tamsin Egerton

#14. What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Epictetus

#15. 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

#16. I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Joe Greene

#17. Not easily placated
by outdated
platitudes
used to soothe
or mask
the obtuse.
Take your nonsenses-
leave.

Cheri Bauer

#18. I smiled at his hair. It was standing out all over the place, wherever it had escaped the elastic bands holding the mask on. "Take

Elle Casey

#19. We need to have a mask that we never take off.

Sui Ishida

#20. To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.
But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.
(Soar)

Soar

#21. We're trained, in our culture, to take care of ourselves first. Even flight attendants tell you to put on your own oxygen mask before helping those around you. But they never tell you what happens afterwards. How do you live with yourself if you survive and the person next to you doesn't?

Tracy Weber

#22. Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Dennis Potter

#23. I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.

Lionel Suggs

#24. I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Aristophanes

#25. Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#26. If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.
If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.
If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.
If you want a partner in life take my hand.
I'm your man.

Leonard Cohen

#27. In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic ... "
Take me away from here, take me away from here.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. Have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. This is indeed a mystery,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#29. On an airplane, you are always told to put on your own oxygen mask first. The same way in life, you need to take care of your health first. If you are not happy and healthy, you cannot make anyone else happy and healthy.

Rajashree Choudhury

#30. Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

Baltasar Kormakur

#31. People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.

Ava Ayers

#32. JORGEN COULD NOT take his eyes off Odette. The mask somehow made her even more mysterious . . . and desirable.

Melanie Dickerson

#33. If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

Richard Simmons

#34. She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.

Jim Butcher

#35. Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?

Oscar Wilde

#36. Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip ... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

Truth Hurts

#37. The Manuka honey face mask is another favorite of mine that I actually do. I know there are these people that recommend crazy masks, and I'm like, 'There is no way you're putting that on your face!' But I do put Manuka honey on my face. I take a teaspoon and warm it up.

Michelle Phan

#38. I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't
and who knew that you could never take it off.

Liz Kessler

#39. Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

Simon R. Green