Mask Quotes

729 Mask quotes by 560 unique authors

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos
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… — Denis Johnson
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that… — Bob Dylan
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you… — Jodi Picoult
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. — Edith Wharton
I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She… — Gaston Leroux
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. — Alan Moore
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. — John Updike
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.… — Bret Easton Ellis
..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… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Horror is the removal of masks. — Robert Bloch
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know… — Neil Gaiman
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as… — Oscar Wilde
It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or… — William P. Young
At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile.… — Jack Spicer
It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had… — Erik Larson
Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. — Randy Pausch
Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face. — J. G. Ballard
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath — Michelle Sagara
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We… — Anchee Min
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… — Victoria Alexander
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
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… — Gaston Leroux

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