Mask Quotes

729 Mask quotes by 560 unique authors

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. — Anne Lamott
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… — Jodi Picoult
Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled… — Soren Kierkegaard
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries… — Oriana Fallaci
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. — Suzanne Collins
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… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny — Sam Shepard
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. — Gregory Maguire
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not… — James A. Baldwin
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. — Nicholas Sparks
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks… — Dean Koontz
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the… — Paulo Coelho
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets,… — Gene Wolfe
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
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… — Dion Fortune
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly respond when I whisper hello Could be my soul… — Jay Asher
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of… — Alexandre Dumas
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… — Colum McCann
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
Give us this day our daily mask. — Tom Stoppard
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth… — Kristin Cashore
Boredom is a mask frustration wears. — Neal Stephenson
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. — Salman Rushdie

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