The Mask Quotes
I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.
People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life.
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.
There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.
Most people play someone else's role or wear mask of other people because they don't think about what they are created for
Don’t despair nowyou fell in love with the maskand not what was behindit touched the chords inside your heartand made it beatand now that you have seen behind itdon’t despair
Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.
I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.
We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.
It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.
Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved
Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.
His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.
We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.