Masks Quotes

208 Masks quotes by 182 unique authors

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. — Hugh Laurie
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings… — Sun Myung Moon
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the… — Susan Orlean
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. — Cesare Pavese
I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You… — Gerard Way
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people… — Charles Bukowski
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. — Steven Millhauser
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no… — Mary Roach
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
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
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
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
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
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
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. — Salman Rushdie
All societies end up wearing masks. — Jean Baudrillard

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