Wearing A Mask Quotes

• 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, Pretending

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• Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

  Lisa Mangum

  Self, Way, Sometimes

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• You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

  Alan Moore

  Honesty, Long, Forget

  "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

  Christopher Barzak

  Real, Who We Are, Shows

  Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

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• All societies end up wearing masks.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mask, Ends

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• ..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Lying, Eye

  1895 'We Wear the Mask', stanza 1.

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• No one can wear a mask for very long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Mask

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Lying, Tortured Souls, Bleeding Heart

  "We Wear the Mask" l. 1, 14 (1895)

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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Social, Shed

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mask, Dangerous

  "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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

  Jack Adams

  Mask, Hiker

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• He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Acting, Losing

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 22, 2012

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• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Talking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Real Friends, Dating

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Penguin

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• I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

  Gerard Butler

  Singing, Movement, Phantoms

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• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

  Humorous, Medicine, Medical Bills

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• I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

  Liz Kessler

  Real, Secret, Trying

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• Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Evil, Looks

  Dean R. Koontz (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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• I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

  Alicia Keys

  Real, Nice, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

  Regis Debray

  Play, History, Scene

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• You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Listening, Comfort

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Style, Mind

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