Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
Men take more pains to mask than mend.
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.
Meekness is the mask of malice.
My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
. . we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i. e. open.
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
The trouble with a mask is it never changes
