What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered. - Peter Straub
He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Give humanity a mask and he will tell you is life, take that mask away and he will tell you another's. - _Encry
There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection. - Vironika Tugaleva
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. - Jason Whitlock
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W. Somerset Maugham
The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon. - Ameya Agrawal
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery. - Anthony Liccione
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. - Titus Lucretius Carus
Confidence is the beauty, kindness is the charm, style is the uniqueness and fashion is the mask. - Debasish Mridha
People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves. - Matthew Donnelly
I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it. - Arthur Golden
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
Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God. - Shannon L. Alder
Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder. - Jaeda DeWalt
Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. - Marty Rubin
We wear the mask that grins and lies.It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.This debt we pay to human guileWith torn and bleeding hearts…We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties.Why should the world think otherwiseIn counting all our tears and sighs.Nay let them only see us whileWe wear the mask. - Maya Angelou
I have learnt that no amount of darkness can mask even the slightest glimmer of light. Find your light and drive out the dark. - Aisha Mirza
People wears a mask of lie so they look attractive , so be careful - Muhammad Saqib
My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. - MH Mahdi
Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth. - Lionel Suggs
Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen
What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you. - Nuno Roque
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. - Wynand de Beer
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 or her with the corpse on his hands. - Jennifer Birkett
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. - Marty Rubin
No one can wear a mask for very long. - Seneca
Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments. - Randy K. Milholland
A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine. - Nuno Roque
She can wear a veil, an eye mask, even a potato sack over her head - it doesn't matter. True beauty never fades; it radiates the kind of glow, that makes you turn your head and look, same way you unconsciously look for the stars, when the night is dark. - Veronika Jensen
Do not hide behind any mask - Lailah Gifty Akita
We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out. - Vironika Tugaleva
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth - Oscar Wilde
She isn’t a dream... I let her body free but I have caged her mind inside my universe and uplifted her soul beyond thatShe had her life to fulfill till she comes back to the patient wolf... Her gentleman under the harsh mask of survival without her but for her - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept. - Emily Thorne
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. - Ameya Agrawal
Have you wondered what our ego is?Our ego is a reflection of our life conditioning.It is no more than a mask (of our outer surface).It is not the inner of who we truly are and what we can truly be. - Alice Bacon
My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me? - Tina J. Richardson
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. - E'yen A. Gardner
Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. - Abhijit Naskar
I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility. - Lionel Suggs
Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight. - Asa Don Brown
Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E.B. White
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 do we have a mask of saying it out instead of delivering what is called as mankind ? - Rakesh Akuthota
The romanticism of struggle is over. What remains are the utterly naked facts. The cult of personality and its collapse. Rethinking of everything. The masks are off (the mask of religion, the mask of heroism…). - Sonallah Ibrahim
Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic. - Cory Duchesne
Charm is deceptive, Wise is sly, having talent is impressive and that puzzles you why. I, but not you, know the mask that I wear. Like how a master knows its masterpiece which is unknown to the world. - Red Delachina
Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask. - Lionel Suggs
Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I? - Joyce Guo
Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice. And I'll believe in grace and choice. And I know perhaps my heart is farce, But I'll be born without a mask. - Mumford and Sons
Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission. - Sarvesh Jain
A devil on being caught for his evil thought and wrong doings gets the help sought of his buddies asking them to go into public with a mask of a civil to rebuke him first virulently and later on revoke all allegations and aspersions cast on him to give him a clean chit. - Anuj Somany
When you wear a mask, you are not real. - David W. Earle
Pain wears no mask .it makes man humble. - Kishore Bansal
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. - Lionel Suggs
Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not. - Anne Deavere Smith