Mask Quotes
110 quotes
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"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 for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!"
"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."
"Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy."
"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
"Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue."
"The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me."
"I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask."
"Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again."
"Playing a fool is the best paid role."
"There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far."
"I am looking for the one I can’t fool."
"Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled."
"The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us."
"Most people play someone else's role or wear mask of other people because they don't think about what they are created for"
"Don’t despair nowyou fell in love with the maskand not what was behindit touched the chords inside your heartand made it beatand now that you have seen behind itdon’t despair"
"Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull."
"First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life."
"We are too scared to be real!"
"Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face."
"There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that."
"I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life."
"The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands."
"A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine."
"Do not hide behind any mask"
"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."
"Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery."
"It was as if he had two faces, one of utmost calm, one of furious action; and he wore both with ease. He was like the animal whose face he wore, able to sit in silence for hours, without moving a muscle, then flying like a raging storm into battle, returning again to perfect calm when the fight was over."
"When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies."
"Be a man! Put on a mask."
"You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers"
"No one is as simple as they may seem to be."
"It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on."
"Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –"
"To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor."
"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."
"The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon."
"In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game"
"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath"
"It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect."
"I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had."
"Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life..."
"Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life."
"Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are.How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be.It’s a tragedy that fear keeps us from our destiny.It’s hell when the person you were created to be is covered up by some cheap imposter"
"I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear."
"People Are like Icebergs, You only really see the tip of them."
"Tapping While Peeling, Back These Masks Stained With Stars…This Ashtrays My Heart, Colored In Filters Sucked Dry From The High, The Lipsticked & Famous, The Lovers The Haters, The Bent Or Those Who Live In The Cage…With Vision Sealed Tight Denying All Light...Left Only With Assumption From A Judge In Sleep State..."
"All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept."
"Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved"
"Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away."
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