Wear Your Mask Quotes

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

Ted Dekker

#2. 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

#3. A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#4. 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

#5. A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Gail Sheehy

#7. I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!

Tommy McDonald

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

Tom Barlow

#9. You can play the part for so long, wear the mask, say what people expect you to say. Fight for as long as there is air in your lungs. Fly if you have wings. But you can never be free from someone who won't let you go.

Debbie Howells

#10. On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Anthony Hopkins

#11. The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Toni Cade Bambara

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Simon R. Green

#14. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. 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

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

Yusuke Kishi

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Eraldo Banovac

#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. 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