33 Quotes About Masks

The idea of having a mask that you wear for others is not a new concept. Depending upon the environment or situation, you may find some people adapt different and alter their behavior to suit the occasion. These quotes about masks serve as the perfect example to the reasons and purposes of us hiding behind a mask.

“All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.”

“All societies end up wearing masks.”

“Although I know it’s unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.”

“Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.”

“Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.”

“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

“I did my thesis on clowns. It’s a powerful thing when you’ve got this little red nose on. It’s a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you.”

“I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.”

“I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.”

“I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.”

“I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you.”

“I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask.”

“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”

“Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.”

“Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it’s a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.”

“No one can wear a mask for very long.”

“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”

“Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.”

“Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. ”

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

“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.”

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.”

“We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.”

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

“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.”

“Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.”

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”

“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

There are many reasons for wearing a mask. From hiding our ego or trying to seek favor, acknowledging the differences and reasons for such will help you to better identify your motives.