Mask Quotes

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

~ Ameya Agrawal

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

~ A.g. Howard

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

~ Sabaa Tahir

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you.

~ Nuno Roque

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

~ A.j. Darkholme

No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.

~ Mo'dayvia La'beija

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.

~ Steven Magee

I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?

~ Joyce Guo

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

~ Amit Abraham

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Perfection can mask imperfection.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.

~ Carolina De Robertis

I took on the shape of a girl.

~ Emma Cline

How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself.(Thirty-Three Abominations)

~ Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wonder. If I had you wear that mask today, Anne, would you find the courage to tell me what is troubling you? Anne would very much have liked to confide in her father, but where in the world would she begin? He leaned over and whispered in her ear. I will tell you a secret, my dear. All of my children are shy. They have simply learned the art of wearing masks.

~ Lena Coakley

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

~ Donna Tartt

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

~ Lionel Suggs

Let's don't join the mask to say the truth and without a mask to say the lie. DON't BE a such pussy, people which are an idiots, stupid and... they do this. You aren't one of them, unless you join them and you be part of them. Truth always goes with us, it follows and always can be found, the lie is just masks, one over another, over another and what happens in the end... You even don't know with which guy did you sleep, was this guy with you yesterday or you were in date with other??

~ Deyth Banger

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

~ Anthony Liccione

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.

~ Mary Balogh

He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find in denying the truth about himself?

~ R.a. Salvatore

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

~ Ashim Shanker

The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face...

~ Deyth Banger

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

~ Chamera Sampson

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

~ Gerald Scarfe

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

~ Denis Diderot

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

~ Rita Ora

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

~ John Dryden

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

~ Phil Mcgraw

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

~ Graham Greene

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

~ Joe Greene

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

~ Katherine Mansfield

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

~ Jim Morrison