We All Wear Mask Quotes

#1. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

#2. I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Will Arnett

#3. If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you cannot remove it without removing your face.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.

Mickey Rivers

#5. I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#6. None will ever be true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows ...

Gaston Leroux

#7. You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Moore

#8. I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

Dennis Hopper

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

Simon R. Green

#10. I've learned to wear my face as a mask, and generally I can write what I choose on it.

Mark Lawrence

#11. I cannot be afraid. I've spent too long being afraid. Too long being diminished by loss. Too long being everything except what I need to be. And whether I am the Reaper, or whether it's just another mask, it's one I must wear, not just for them, but for myself.

Pierce Brown

#12. Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Don't wear your mask too long or you might start to forget who's beneath it. -Austin

Ted Dekker

#14. For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.

Cate Blanchett

#15. I like having a job where I get to wear a mask all day.

Laura Van Den Berg

#16. Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.

Robert W. Chambers

#17. 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

#18. If you wear a mask for too long, it becomes a part of your character.

Eraldo Banovac

#19. Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men.

Pierce Brown

#20. The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.

Gregory Benford

#21. One last time - you have to wear this mask one last time, and then you can bury Celaena Sardothien forever.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. The reason I suggest that one speaks of a false-self system is that the 'personality', false self, mask, 'front', or persona that such individuals wear may consist in an amalgam of various part-selves, none of which is so fully developed as to have a comprehensive 'personality' of its own.

R.D. Laing

#23. Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.

Orson Scott Card

#24. 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

#25. The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#26. 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

#27. Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

Richard Bach

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Gaston Leroux

#31. A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Shusaku Endo

#32. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#33. Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

#34. When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

Yusuke Kishi