Mask Quotes - Page 13

• Horror is the removal of masks.

  Robert Bloch

  Horror, Removal

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• ...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

  Brandon Mull

  Eye, Purple, Deception

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Bishops, Faces

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

  Jack Adams

  Wearing A Mask, Hiker

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• If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

  Paul Ekman

  Unhappy Person, People, Feelings

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• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Order, Humanity

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• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Pain, Glasses

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.37, Mondial

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• We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Wonder, Feels

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

  Michael Arndt

  Adversity, Challenges, Self Improvement

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• Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.

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• Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

  Florinda Donner

  Long, Cost, Fit

  Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins

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• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Secret, Decay

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• Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

  Phil McGraw

  Being Yourself, Giving, World

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• The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

  Sue Grafton

  Play, Feelings, Age

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.77, Macmillan

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• What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

  Duke of Wellington

  Coward, Uniforms

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Selfish, Boredom, Bitterness

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

  Gregory Maguire

  Guilt, World, Faces

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• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

  William Hazlitt

  Sarcasm, Men, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Character, Our Society, Kind

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• 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 are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, People, Trying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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