Hidden Self Quotes

Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

A man is hid under his tongue.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.