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.

no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it...

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...

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer,...

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...

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...

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

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...

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

A vagina is a door to a new world,” I thought as I grabbed the handle and gave it a turn.

…there’s something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one – I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me…

And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?””La luna,” she said with a smile.”Then I shall be la notte to your moon” Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped...

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

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...

I don’t impressed if you’re a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.

March 1898What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low quarter of some Barcelona or Marseille. The streets were noisome, with their freshly-heaped piles...

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...

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Always guarding one’s real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

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 thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Il avait encore la peau recouverte d’acné juvénile et, pour que ça ne se voie pas, il portait sur son visage le masque de la révolte.

When the lord gives a human a life to live with and all the things they need, why do the humans give back the money to the lord ? Are humans that crazy ? Or...

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. ―

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.

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.

Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the...

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities...

Chronicler shook his head and Bast gave a frustrated sigh. “How about plays? Have you seen The Ghost and the Goosegirl or The Ha’penny King?”Chronicler frowned. “Is that the one where the king sells his...

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can’t mask is my dwindling grade point average.” -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

Below the surface I lie dreaming,haunting images, in all colours and black.Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there.I keep the dream below the surface,the cracked mask absolute.

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...

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

Pain wears no mask .it makes man humble.

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.