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“Once you wear a mask for as long as she has, it’s nearly impossible to take it off. Either that, or she’s the one who feels invisible.”
― Anna Todd, Before

“When masks fall off, don’t focus on where they fall, focus on who they reveal. If you allow it, chaos will be a great illuminator. Ignore the noise, but pay attention to the direction in which it comes. Situations like this reveal who’s who and what’s what. The noise is just a distraction.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Ironically, when we own the shadow aspects of our self and put down our masks - this is when we become truly lovable.”
― Jane Monica-Jones, The Billionaire Buddha

“At some point in the life of every scapegoat, the clock will strike the midnight hour, the masks will come off, and the aggression of family will reveal itself.”
― M. Wakefield, Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays

“By understanding the value system the world preferred, remembering and feigning it, I was able to convince others that I was free of problems. I simply had to participate enthusiastically in the boring conversations my classmates were having.”
― Otsuichi, Goth

“He gestured at her mask. "A swan. It suits you."
"I didn't have many choices. It was either a swan or a peacock."
The prince leaned closer, speaking softly. "Swans were my mother's favorite birds. She used to tell me that once they fall in love, they stay in love forever.”
― Elizabeth Lim, So This is Love

“I may be wearing a mask,
But I'm smiling if you ask!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side

“To give optimism a hand up, we must come to understand that behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than fear bent on knocking us down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mirror mirror on the wall who is the deceptor amongst us all".”
― Amit Abraham

“My masks are getting easier to slip on. Whatever was left of the real me fades a little more every day.”
― Nitya Prakash

“He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“If the choice is dying from COVID-19 or surviving by wearing a hazmat suit, a gas mask and goggles to the shops, I choose the latter.”
― Steven Magee

“As a means for the preserving of the individual, the intellect unfolds its principle
powers in dissimulation, which is the means by which weaker, less robust individuals
preserve themselves-since they have been denied the chance to wage the battle for
existence with horns or with the sharp teeth of beasts of prey, This art of dissimulation
reaches its peak in man. 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. They are deeply immersed in
illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and
see "forms." Their senses nowhere lead to truth; on the contrary, they are content to
receive stimuli and, as it were, to engage in a groping game on the backs of things.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

“…the Obscure Object was wearing a mask. The mask for tragedy, her eyes like knife slashes, her mouth a boomerang of woe. With this hideous face she threw herself on me. “Oh my God!â€� she sobbed. “Oh my God, Callie,â€� and she was shaking and needing me.

Which leads me to a terrible confession. It is this. While Mrs. Grossinger tried to breathe life back into Maxine’s body, while the sun set melodramatically over a death that wasn’t in the script, I felt a wave of pure happiness surge through my body. Every nerve, every corpuscle, lit up. I had the Obscure Object in my arms.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Juist de maskers die we kiezen tonen het diepste van onze ziel”
― Joost de Vries, De republiek

“I’m not going to tell you to wear a mask to hide your sadness just because my own mask is on the edge of shattering.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“When you’re a teenager, everybody is waiting for you to be something or someone else - your friends, your parents, your teachers. Sometimes you lose track. Are you the shy kid in the back of the room who apologizes for even accidentally touching Susan Childress’s arm, or the guy making bombs in the backyard? Are you the helpless nerd with the backpack on hoping you don’t get the snot beat out of you by the school bully, or the helpless nerd with the mask on, hoping you don’t get the snot beat out of you by the town’s newest supervillain?
Or maybe you’re just the helpless nerd staring at the helpless nerd in the mirror, talking to yourself, wondering which one of you needs more help.”
― John David Anderson

“It may drive us insane when we see the simple mathematics apparently failing in the system surrounding us: just a handful of wrongdoers oppressing the vast number of the wronged ones! But it’s not the truth, if we have a closer look at itâ€� The unfortunate truth is that the majority of the wronged ones are shackled within their own periphery by fear, greed, egoism and many other trammels, but it’s not that they remain there all the timeâ€� They, now and again, come out of their periphery to register themselves among the wrongdoers whenever it suits them and then retreat again inside their periphery after serving their purposes. Once inside the periphery they are once again the innocent wronged onesâ€� They can’t see the transition, as there are masks upon their faces, which restrict their vision: the masks of sanity, behind which they are allowed to commit all the insanities. And at times the mask of sanity appears so dreadful that insanity feels saner before it. The fanaticism, the terrorism, the cast-carnages! Inflicting punishment upon an insane person for his insanity! Beating him black and blue for a crime he isn’t even conscious of having committed! Just to protect honor! The honor, which doesn’t get tarnished by the heinous crimes they commit! But it gets tainted by an insane act from an insane person! What an irony!”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“His Vengeance is an insatiable engine fueled by burning wrath generating a boundless galactic nightmare”
― Alan Grant, Lobo/Mask

“Generally we want the mirror to reflect what we actually are not".”
― Amit Abraham

“Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.  ”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“as if I am an instrument he is tuning,
or as if (adjusting his mask) he is adjusting an instrument
to look through meâ€�”
― Mary Szybist, Granted

“Never share an oxygen administration mask.”
― Steven Magee

“Do yourself a favor and wear a protective face mask.”
― Steven Magee

“The smartest person in the store is wearing a hazmat suit, gas mask, googles and rubber gloves.”
― Steven Magee

“Ironically, when we own of shadow aspects of our self and put down our masks - this is when we become truly lovable.”
― Jane Monica-Jones, The Billionaire Buddha

“It is only the human who wears the mask for its motives.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“For attempting to have sexual relations with an elephant, Tram Chung Song, who had said in his defence that the elephant had suddenly seemed to him like a reincarnation of his wife, was taken at his word by the judges and sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment - the usual sentence for marital rape.

The subject who takes himself for what he is is mad. But if he senses that he is not really what he is, then he can use that identification as a mask. This is the way it is with truth too: if you claim to possess it, you are mad. But if you know it doesn't exist, then you can make use of all the signs of truth.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“People wake up in the morning; there are many masks in their rooms, and today they decide which mask to wear! Man has only one face, but a thousand masks!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Being a hero is not necessarily wearing a mask and cape and saving the world, it can be as simple as doing the right thing.”
― Steven Magee