Mask Quotes - Page 3

• Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

  Stephen Dunn

  Unfair, Knows

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• In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Ridiculous, Absurd

  "The Comic Spirit of G.K. Chesterton: A Study of the Humor, Wit, and Satire in His Work". Book by Aileen Dorothy Lorberg, 1938.

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• Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Judging, Purpose, Lasts

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

  Rick Warren

  Positivity, Coaching, Wearing A Mask

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Time, Party

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• I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

  Bob Dylan

  Pride, People, Able

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

  John Updike

  Life, Faces, Fame

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 26, 2013

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• Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Filters, Earth, Imagine

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• Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Ugly, Knows

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

  Shusaku Endo

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

  James Ensor

  Mean, Expression, Color

  Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art

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• So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tongue, District 12, Indifferent

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

  Shel Silverstein

  Blue, Poetry, Skins

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• There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

  Dion Fortune

  Personality, Use, Answers

  Dion Fortune (1971). “Goat Foot God: A Novel”, p.235, Weiser Books

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• Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Lying, Latin

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• Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

  Hugh Laurie

  Acting, Music Is

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• What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.

  Kane

  Wwe, Chicks

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• As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

  Erich Fromm

  Ladders, Injustice, Social

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• I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Self, Energy

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.413

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• Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Flesh, Vendetta

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• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Different

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• After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Beautiful, Lying, Rain

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• Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Hateful

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.8

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• Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Light, Sight, Vices

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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