Mask Quotes
729 quotes by 560 authors
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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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
— Benjamin Franklin
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When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have…
— Rajneesh
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First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely…
— Rajneesh
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You…
— G I Gurdjieff
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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
— Mark Twain
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.
— Rajneesh
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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…
— John Keegan
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Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot…
— Rajneesh
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My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will…
— Bo Sanchez
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Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It…
— Liv Ullmann
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
— Frances Conroy
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes…
— Unknown Author
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life…
— Seneca the Younger
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Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.
— Deepak Chopra
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One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Martina McBride
Who Wrote These Mask Quotes
560 authors contributed a total of 729 Mask Quotes, led by these top contributors: