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“You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“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

“Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks.

I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt myself staring at him with crystal clear eyes...

From that time on I was in love with Omi.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“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 â€� and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.”
― Jennifer Birkett

“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

“I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears”
― Chamera M. Sampson

“The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I don't impressed if you're a religious person.
I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“And the touch of her own mask, at first cool and clammy leather, but quickly like a second skin, and the play it gives her, herself a stage, her every breath a performance, and yet (herein lies the magic) also and entirely true. Every game, every lie flirting and cruel - and the house is full of them, games and lies - is real as knives, for the masquerade has come to define the night. The false face of everyday, that hides reality beneath flesh and skin, is itself hidden beneath the fantasy that, because it is a product and reflection of the mind, is an honest facade. Sadie has lived a wary, defensive life, always urged by that self-preserving instinct to stay small, hidden, safe. She did not know she had an imp inside her until she wore it on her face.

("One Of The Hungry Ones")”
― Holly Phillips, Best New Horror 17

“Sie dachte noch an Unkes Maske, als sie einschlief, und im Halbschlaf fragte sie sich, ob nicht jedermann bisweilen eine Maske trug.
Eine Maske der Freude, eine Maske der Trauer, eine Maske der Gleichgültigkeit.
Eine Maske aus Ihr-seht-mich-nicht.”
― Kai Meyer, Die Fließende Königin

“Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which made them look alive. Stuck in the vicious circle of death. Scared to break out and scared of falling into the infinite pit of darkness, they beat down their souls that were fighting for an escape, mercilessly every day. They walked out into the world with pain, only to return back to the home, which did not feel like a home anymore, again in the night. They removed their masks in front of the mirror, stared into those empty eyes and walked back to their graves silently, with the fear of waking up again next day and with nothing to celebrate in their heart.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“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

“I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana”
― Susan Kay

“Most men who very seldom say a moral thing, very seldom do a wrong thing. Their immorality is simply a pose, an image that serves to differentiate them from the ‘morally perfect massesâ€�. And as opposite to it, most men who very frequently say a moral thing, very frequently do a wrong thing. Their morality is simply a mask in order to gain the respect of the masses.”
― Elmar Hussein

“People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.”
― Donna Tartt

“You were honest with men and they ate your heart, then spat it out. You couldn't let them see the naked self beneath the mascara and rouge. You couldn't let them find you curled up and small in the middle of the bed.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“He murmured, 'You did it on purpose.'
I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Out in the world, it's like she needs to be everything to everyone, with nothing left for herself at the end of the day.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“Dad rests his hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eye. "Keep making me proud, Eduardo."
These tiny moments of affection are how he's trapped me over the years. The pat on the back after I threatened to have Peter McCall drowned if he ever used his water power in front of me. How Dad bandaged my hand after I beat down Harry Gardner. The praise after Rhys Stone was killed. I've attacked an entire community of people because I got some fatherly love from it. But every time I think about my mother, I know she wouldn't have raised me to be so hateful. I need to change and be someone she would've been proud to call her son.
It's hard when there's so much blood on my hands already.
Sometimes I think about how I would rather be dead than keep hiding my monstrosities behind this mask.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story

“Unprovoked insults are but the surly mask of fear and ignorance.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“I had no brothers or sisters, so life was not difficult for my mother and me. When I think back, I see her clearly with her thin lips resolutely closed, with something on her face like a mask, I don't know â€� a thick mask, as though her face were the surface of the sea. Do you understand? It possessed not a single colour but a multitude, appearing and disappearing and intermingling. We had no relatives. She and I acted as relatives to each other. It was as if she were some stranger on the road with whom circumstances had chanced to bring me... I used to have â€� you may be surprised â€� a warm feeling of being free, that there was not a human being, by father or mother, to tie me down as a tent peg to particular spot, a particular domain... I was not like other children of my age: I wasn't wasn't affected by anything, I didn't cry when hit, wasn't glad if the teacher praised me in class, didn't suffer from the things the rest did. I was like something rounded, made of rubber: you throw it in the water and it doesn't get wet, you throw it on the ground and it bounces back.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

“I placed my pipe on its stand and started getting dressed. I took my pyjamas off, put on a shirt and trousers, and a dressing gown on top. When I had managed to do all of this, I put the cotton gloves on both my hands. And finally, it was time to put on my face.
My mask.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

“A cold death mask worn by a living man.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

“His silence made even the white mask seem melancholic.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

“Behind the mask of calm lies a sea of unspoken pain.”
― DarkNightBeacon

“Behind the mask of calm lies a sea of unspoken pain.”
― Dark Night Beacon

“For some of those vampires and witches you see todayâ€� This is the ONLY day of the year they don’t have to hide who they are.”
― Steve Maraboli