Masking Quotes

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

No one can keep a mask on long.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

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

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

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

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.

The voice that arms itself to be heard. / The face that hides itself to be seen.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Life is a masquerade.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.