Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. River Phoenix
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wil
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
Often the wounding goes so deep that we create masks and walls to hide behind as protection against further pain while we struggle with overcoming insecurity. So we become the persona that we are prepared to show, and hide the real self away.
Many African societies see masks as mediators between the living world and the supernatural world of the dead, ancestors and other entities. Masks became and still become the attribute of a dressed up dancer who gave it life and word at the time of ceremonies.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. Jim Morrison
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Kahlil Gibran
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo
A mask of gold hides all deformities. Thomas Dekker
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. Mike Fitzpatrick
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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