The Mask Quotes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

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.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

No one can keep a mask on long.

There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.