Emotional Masking Quotes

I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

I do tend to drape my real feelings with pretty words and different layers and stuff.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.

Especially in our industry, everything is so prim and proper; you'll never really see anyone show their sad side, because everyone wants to be perfect.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Fear usually looks like anger.

I act like I'm always in a good mood when I'm not, but it's my job.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

A part of me likes to pretty up feelings that aren't so pretty.