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“The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes. All too often individuals feel, after the fact-when feelings are hurt and hearts are broken-that it was a case of mistaken identity, that the loved one is a stranger. They saw what they wanted to see rather than what was really there.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Masks reveal. They don’t conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“The mask in which you choose to disguise yourself uncovers who you subconsciously are or want to be. Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“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

“People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“However much the plays and the masks on the world's stage may change it is always the same actors who appear. We sit together and talk and grow excited, and our eyes glitter and our voices grow shriller: just so did others sit and talk a thousand years ago: it was the same thing, and it was the same people: and it will be just so a thousand years hence. The contrivance which prevents us from perceiving this is time.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“As you recover, you will find yourself letting go of many of your negative beliefs. You will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. With this perspective, you will come to see, for example, that the names you were called as a child are simply not true. You are not ‘stupid,â€� ‘lazy,â€� ‘ugly,â€� or a ‘liarâ€�. You can discover just who you really are. You can let go of your pretenses and masks and discover who the real person is underneath.”
― Beverly Engel, The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group

“Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

“We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us â€� a wall that keeps love out.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progressâ€�.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Blindfolded, your feelings are enhanced. You see less, you see nothing, but you feel more. You feel everything.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade

“Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Apparently, though, fear was merely the mask fascination wore to hide itself from itself.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes”
― James Patterson, Invisible

“But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla

“In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces.
Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“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

“Tapping While Peeling, Back These Masks Stained With Starsâ€�

This Ashtrays My Heart,
Colored In Filters Sucked Dry From The High, The Lipsticked & Famous,
The Lovers The Haters,
The Bent Or Those Who Live In The Cage�
With Vision Sealed Tight Denying All Light..
.Left Only With Assumption From A Judge In Sleep State...”
― L V HALL

“We all wear masks
to veil the truth.
Truth is nakedness.
Truth is fear.
Truth is the gardener
making you sit on
his lap
asking you to
light his cigarette.
Truth is father�
with a limp cigarette on his lips
—telling you to never
use his matches
to light it for him.
Truth is father
yelling:
"It is not
nice for little girls
to do so�.
Truth is a curious girl
wanting to
ignite a match
like a woman.
Truth is the maid watching
from the kitchen,
knowing.
But knowing isn’t truth.
Truth is the maid calling:
Come. Come.
Truth is the gardener understanding.
But understanding isn’t truth.
Truth is the maid saying,
"Stay away!"
Truth is a girl thinking
she is in control.
That nothing happened,
nothing bad.
But the truest truth
is a girl knowing,
a girl understanding that
on that day
someone stole
a little piece of her
truth.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion; silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“It’s not something you can put your finger on, like height (though he’s taller than me) or strength (though he’s stronger than me), but there’s something there. This power. Like being ordinary is just a mask he wears.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I wonder. If I had you wear that mask today, Anne, would you find the courage to tell me what is troubling you?"

Anne would very much have liked to confide in her father, but where in the world would she begin?

He leaned over and whispered in her ear. "I will tell you a secret, my dear. All of my children are shy. They have simply learned the art of wearing masks.”
― Lena Coakley

“Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet.”
― Megan Frazer Blakemore, The Water Castle

“Do not hide behind any mask”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

“I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?”
― Joyce Guo

“Not what hatches out is the face to the world.”
― Amit Abraham

“Pussy Riot is a mask: a symplifying, modernizing mask. Prison, confinement, these are also masks, different masks, ones that help people of our generation to shake off cynicism and irony. When you put on a mask, you leave your own time, you abandon the world in which any sincerity will be mocked, you move into the world of cartoon heroes, where Sailor Moon and Spiderman, those consummate modern role models, can be found. (...) The masks that members of Pussy Riot wear hold, if any, a therapeutic function: yes, we belong to a generation raised on irony, but we also put on masks to reduce that impotent irony. We go out in the streets and speak plainly, without varnish, about the things that matter most.”
― Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

“Let's don't join the mask to say the truth and without a mask to say the lie. DON't BE a such pussy, people which are an idiots, stupid and... they do this. You aren't one of them, unless you join them and you be part of them. Truth always goes with us, it follows and always can be found, the lie is just masks, one over another, over another and what happens in the end... You even don't know with which guy did you sleep, was this guy with you yesterday or you were in date with other??”
― Deyth Banger