Quotes about Mask

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Votes: 4

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Votes: 4

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. Votes: 3

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. Votes: 3

There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on Votes: 3

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. Votes: 3

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. Votes: 3

I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part. Votes: 3

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories... Votes: 3

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask." Votes: 3

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 3

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 3

Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast. Votes: 3

A mask tells us more than a face. Votes: 2

We wear the mask that grins and lies. Votes: 2

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. Votes: 2

Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey Votes: 2

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. Votes: 2

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Votes: 2

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. Votes: 2

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Votes: 2

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather! Votes: 2

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain. Votes: 2

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. Votes: 2

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Votes: 2

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. Votes: 2

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Votes: 2

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Votes: 2

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. Votes: 2

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask. Votes: 2

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Votes: 2

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. Votes: 2

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Votes: 2

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm. Votes: 2

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. Votes: 2

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. Votes: 2

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved. Votes: 2

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. Votes: 2

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. Votes: 2

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? Votes: 2

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand. Votes: 2

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. Votes: 2

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind. Votes: 2

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. Votes: 2

Everyone wears a mask. Votes: 0

....and your stupid camel mask... Votes: 0

Meekness is the mask of malice. Votes: 0

Mortals are equal; their mask differs. Votes: 0

Boredom is a mask frustration wears. Votes: 0

Writing is both mask and unveiling. Votes: 0

Every profound spirit needs a mask. Votes: 0

Humor is the mask of wisdom. Votes: 0

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. Votes: 0

Personality is a mask you believe in. Votes: 0

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ... Votes: 0

Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information. Votes: 0

Anybody who wears a mask is scared. Votes: 0

Give us this day our daily mask. Votes: 0

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance... Votes: 0

It's very different to live with a mask. Votes: 0

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great Votes: 0

Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask. Votes: 0

What can I say? Chicks dig the mask. Votes: 0

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. Votes: 0

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious Votes: 0

Men take more pains to mask than mend. Votes: 0

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask! Votes: 0

No one can keep a mask on long. Votes: 0

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice. Votes: 0

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains Votes: 0

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws Votes: 0

Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. Votes: 0

When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you. Votes: 0

Some of us wear the mask prouder than others. Votes: 0

Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great Votes: 0

The trouble with a mask is it never changes Votes: 0

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart. Votes: 0

We mask our needs as the needs of others. Votes: 0

No one can wear a mask for very long. Votes: 0

America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. Votes: 0

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. Votes: 0

Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask. Votes: 0

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower! Votes: 0

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces. Votes: 0

The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask. Votes: 0

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ... Votes: 0

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. Votes: 0

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. Votes: 0

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself Votes: 0

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. Votes: 0

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. Votes: 0

There come a time, when good man must wear mask. Votes: 0

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. Votes: 0

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Votes: 0

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... Votes: 0

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain. Votes: 0

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. Votes: 0

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. Votes: 0

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. Votes: 0

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. Votes: 0

... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask Votes: 0

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes. Votes: 0

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. Votes: 0

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. Votes: 0

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice. Votes: 0

Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth. Votes: 0

My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me? Votes: 0

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. Votes: 0

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance. Votes: 0

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. Votes: 0

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite. Votes: 0

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature. Votes: 0

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. Votes: 0

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. Votes: 0

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time. Votes: 0

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves. Votes: 0

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off. Votes: 0

Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs. Votes: 0

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask... Votes: 0

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. Votes: 0

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. Votes: 0

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. Votes: 0

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I've had lots of practice. Votes: 0

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face. Votes: 0

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? Votes: 0

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves. Votes: 0

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. Votes: 0

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time. Votes: 0

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask. Votes: 0

It's amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces. Votes: 0

My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask. Votes: 0

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love. Votes: 0

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. Votes: 0

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask. Votes: 0

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy. Votes: 0

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at? Votes: 0

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it. Votes: 0

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. Votes: 0

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth. Votes: 0

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Votes: 0

I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself! Votes: 0

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. Votes: 0

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. Votes: 0

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. Votes: 0

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face. Votes: 0

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. Votes: 0

Blessed are those that transcend the mask, shift their shizz and choose to live Truth. Votes: 0

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. Votes: 0

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. Votes: 0

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen. Votes: 0

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. Votes: 0

Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. Votes: 0

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask. Votes: 0

You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it! Votes: 0

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power. Votes: 0

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. Votes: 0

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. Votes: 0

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on. Votes: 0

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face. Votes: 0

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. Votes: 0

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. Votes: 0

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope! Votes: 0

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth. Votes: 0

My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. Votes: 0

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. Votes: 0

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. Votes: 0

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs. Votes: 0

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. Votes: 0

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night. Votes: 0

Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel. Votes: 0

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. Votes: 0

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. Votes: 0

Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That's scary. Votes: 0

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask. Votes: 0

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. Votes: 0

You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask. Votes: 0

Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls. Votes: 0

I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask. Votes: 0

I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer. Votes: 0

One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity. Votes: 0

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public. Votes: 0

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. Votes: 0

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not. Votes: 0

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. Votes: 0

When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside. Votes: 0

Is the mask working?" she asked me."How can I tell?""If you can breath, then it's working. Votes: 0

I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core. Votes: 0

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. Votes: 0

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. Votes: 0

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. Votes: 0

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) Votes: 0

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting Votes: 0

I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth. Votes: 0

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny Votes: 0

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. Votes: 0

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself. Votes: 0

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids. Votes: 0

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity. Votes: 0

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! Votes: 0

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. Votes: 0

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. Votes: 0

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Votes: 0

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness? Votes: 0

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character. Votes: 0

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one Votes: 0

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields. Votes: 0

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise. Votes: 0

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath. Votes: 0

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much Votes: 0

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask. Votes: 0

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. Votes: 0

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. Votes: 0

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it. Votes: 0

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. Votes: 0

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth Votes: 0

I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky. Votes: 0

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds. Votes: 0

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. Votes: 0

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath Votes: 0

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him Votes: 0

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. Votes: 0

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. Votes: 0

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face. Votes: 0

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it. Votes: 0

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? Votes: 0

Love is the hero of all emotions. My love for you is a superhero, and it looks great hidden behind a mask. Votes: 0

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon. Votes: 0

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. Votes: 0

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. Votes: 0

Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic. Votes: 0

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. Votes: 0

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry Votes: 0

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath Votes: 0

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed. Votes: 0

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth. Votes: 0

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask. Votes: 0

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. Votes: 0

I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes. Votes: 0

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness. Votes: 0

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Votes: 0

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life. Votes: 0

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. Votes: 0

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body. Votes: 0

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone. Votes: 0

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal. Votes: 0

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman. Votes: 0

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ... Votes: 0

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time. Votes: 0

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever. Votes: 0

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations. Votes: 0

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is! Votes: 0

Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen. Votes: 0

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad. Votes: 0

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again. Votes: 0

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask? Votes: 0

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first. Votes: 0

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. Votes: 0

Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self. Votes: 0

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask! Votes: 0

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do. Votes: 0

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked. Votes: 0

EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you. Votes: 0

Scientology always makes me think of that movie V where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable. Votes: 0

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask. Votes: 0

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess. Votes: 0

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears Votes: 0

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. Votes: 0

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down. Votes: 0

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace. Votes: 0

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped. Votes: 0

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships. Votes: 0

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. Votes: 0

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis. Votes: 0

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long! Votes: 0

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you. Votes: 0

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long. Votes: 0

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time. Votes: 0

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this? Votes: 0

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door. Votes: 0

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility." Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask. Votes: 0

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face. Votes: 0

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it. Votes: 0

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable. Votes: 0

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears. Votes: 0

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We've been doing something every year. We had a rock concert a few years ago to benefit the Garden of Dreams. And then we had the mask event. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Votes: 0

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Votes: 0

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent. Votes: 0

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath. Votes: 0

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face. Votes: 0

The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates. Votes: 0

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there. Votes: 0

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. Votes: 0

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town. Votes: 0

Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy. Votes: 0

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town. Votes: 0

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind. Votes: 0

I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.(Soar) Votes: 0

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. Votes: 0

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening. Votes: 0

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self. Votes: 0

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice. And I'll believe in grace and choice. And I know perhaps my heart is farce, But I'll be born without a mask. Votes: 0

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.' Votes: 0

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born Votes: 0

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. Votes: 0

Below the surface I lie dreaming,haunting images, in all colours and black.Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there.I keep the dream below the surface,the cracked mask absolute. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Votes: 0

First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism. Votes: 0

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to [the lyrics]; I wanted to squirm. Votes: 0

Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. Votes: 0

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary. Votes: 0

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. Votes: 0

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. Votes: 0

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women. Votes: 0

Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail Votes: 0

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being. Votes: 0

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked. Votes: 0

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his. Votes: 0

I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them. Votes: 0

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. Votes: 0

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet." Votes: 0

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. Votes: 0

People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up . Votes: 0

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself. Votes: 0

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you. Votes: 0

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too! Votes: 0

When I just want to be free, I'll wear the Banderas outfit and the mask and touch myself. On the chest. Only on the chest. I just want to feel the silky silks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with. Votes: 0

Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers. Votes: 0

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. Votes: 0

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. Votes: 0

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else. Votes: 0

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure. Votes: 0

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? Votes: 0

The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal. Votes: 0

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is. Votes: 0

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. Votes: 0

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. Votes: 0

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks. Votes: 0

Michael Myers is a very famous character. This is the ninth movie with Michael Myers, and when you put on that mask for the first time, you get a little chill going down your spine. Votes: 0

I wear the mask. It does not wear me. Votes: 0

A mask of gold hides all deformities. Votes: -1