The Mask We Live In Quotes

#1. It's very different to live with a mask.

Johnny Hunt

#2. 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

#3. Remove them." Stuck in masks - for nearly fifty years. I would have gone mad, would have peeled my skin off my face. "You didn't have a mask as a beast - and neither did your friend." "The blight is cruel like that." Either live as a beast, or live with the mask. "What - what sort of sickness is it?

Sarah J. Maas

#4. If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Banksy

#5. Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

P.D. James

#6. If we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect.

Donald Miller

#7. 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

#8. If we're wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn't even reach where we truly live.

Alexandra Katehakis

#9. Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Ralph Bellamy