Mask Quotes

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

~ Criss Jami

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

~ Gaston Leroux

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ K.l. Toth

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

~ Anthnoy T.hincks

People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

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.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.

~ Toba Beta

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

~ Criss Jami

Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled.

~ Ken Poirot

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

~ Criss Jami

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

~ Salman Rushdie

He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.

~ Victoria Schwab

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

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.

~ Steve Moore

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.

~ Anna Aquino

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.

~ Jennifer Birkett

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

~ Nuno Roque

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.

~ Anthony Liccione

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion, silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

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.

~ Anthony Liccione

It was as if he had two faces, one of utmost calm, one of furious action; and he wore both with ease. He was like the animal whose face he wore, able to sit in silence for hours, without moving a muscle, then flying like a raging storm into battle, returning again to perfect calm when the fight was over.

~ Kaoru Kurimoto

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

~ Eva Hoffman

Be a man! Put on a mask.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

You know, it's never wise to tempt the devilHis gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers

~ Kristen Callihan

No one is as simple as they may seem to be.

~ Lik Hock Yap

It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.

~ Trevor D. Richardson

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

~ Simona Panova

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Ameya Agrawal

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

~ Lucas Sterk

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

~ P.d. James

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.

~ Nathaniel Branden

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.

~ Simona Panova