Mask Quotes - Page 13

• Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

  W. H. Auden

  Finding The One, People, Trying

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Growing Up, Shoes

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.

  Igor Babailov

  Character, Artist, Creating

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• We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Soul, Faces

  "The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Names, Grace, Development

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Expectations, Labels

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Clouds, Issues, Confusion

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• I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

  Ala Bashir

  Clever, Intelligent, People

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

  Paul Ekman

  Unhappy Person, People, Feelings

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• We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Wonder, Feels

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jack Adams

  Wearing A Mask, Hiker

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• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, Biographies

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• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Bishops, Faces

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

  Brandon Mull

  Eye, Purple, Deception

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

  Mary McCarthy

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Divinity, Individual, Instruments

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.27, Grove Press

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• In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Character, Our Society, Kind

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

  M. Scott Peck

  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Names, Lame, Innocent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Past, Ivy

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

  Michael Arndt

  Adversity, Challenges, Self Improvement

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