quotes about Mask
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
-- Agatha ChristieSource : Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”
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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
-- Alan Moore -
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
-- Alexander Herzen -
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The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!
-- Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira -
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
-- Anna Maria ChavezSource : "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
-- Anne Lamott -
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.
-- Annie BesantSource : Annie Besant (2009). “Death - and After?”, p.70, The Floating Press
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
-- Benito Mussolini -
We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
-- Brenda ShoshannaSource : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes
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Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.
-- Christopher BarzakSource : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam
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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.
-- Claire MessudSource : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.25, Vintage
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Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.
-- Deb Caletti -
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The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
-- Debbie Ford -
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
-- Dennis Potter -
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
-- Duke of Wellington -
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
-- Edgar Quinet -
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Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...
-- Edith Hamilton -
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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.
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press
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Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.
-- Ellen DuBois -
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
-- Eric Schlosser -
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
-- Erich Fromm -
I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.
-- Eva Herzigova -
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
-- Frances Conroy -
My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.
-- Franny Billingsley -
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
-- Frantz Fanon -
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
-- George OrwellSource : George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
-- Georges Bernanos -
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.
-- Gerard Butler -
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
-- Guy DebordSource : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.45, Bread and Circuses Publishing
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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
-- Henryk SienkiewiczSource : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
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Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
-- Hugh Laurie -
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
-- Hun Sen -
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.
-- Jack Adams -
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
-- John DillingerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
-- John Fowles -
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.
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There come a time, when good man must wear mask.
-- Johnny Depp -
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It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life
-- Judd Nelson -
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws
-- Lucinda RileySource : Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel”, p.220, Simon and Schuster
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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I wear the mask. It does not wear me.
-- Man in the Iron MaskSource : "Fictional character: Philippe". "The Man in the Iron Mask", 1998.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey
-- Matsuo Basho -
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The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
-- Michelle Sagara -
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
-- Midori Snyder -
Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask.
-- Patrick Roy -
We wear the mask that grins and lies.
-- Paul Laurence Dunbar -
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With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
-- Peter Mayhew -
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.
-- Phil McGraw -
I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask...
-- Philip Zimbardo -
When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.
-- Qiu XiaolongSource : Qiu Xiaolong (2003). “Death of a Red Heroine”, p.66, Soho Press
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One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.
-- Quentin L. Cook -
Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.
-- Randy Pausch -
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
-- Reginald Horace BlythSource : Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”
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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.
-- Rick BakerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
-- River Phoenix -
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There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on
-- Rumi -
As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
-- Russell Hornsby -
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
-- Salman Rushdie -
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The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
-- Stephen Dunn -
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 ...
-- Stephen Harper -
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
-- Steven MillhauserSource : Steven Millhauser (2011). “We Others: New & Selected Stories”, p.243, Vintage
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You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.
-- W. D. Snodgrass -
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
-- Wes Craven -
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
-- William Golding -
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There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
-- William WhewellSource : William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History”, p.42
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During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
-- Xavier Forneret -
When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.
-- Yusuke Kishi -
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
-- Zhang Ziyi -
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In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.
-- Alexia LandeauSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.
-- Domenico GnoliSource : Source: observer.com
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Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
-- Gerard Cox -
You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.
-- Henrik LundqvistSource : Source: wwd.com
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You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!
-- Nikki Glaser -
Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard -
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.
-- Rich Fulcher -
I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
-- Richard O'Brien -