Hiding True Self Quotes

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.