Mask Quotes - Page 15

• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Oxygen, Community, Want

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• Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spheres, Different, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.47, Heinemann

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• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Lying, Reality

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

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• Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

  Cornel West

  Civilization, Nihilism, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 20, 2012

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• I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

  Jodi Picoult

  Imagine, Smooth, Patches

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Midnight, Littles

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• Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Blue, University Degrees, Games

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• It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mind, Normal, Calm

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hair, Jekyll, Faces

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.64, Broadview Press

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• The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Solitude, Opinion

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Jason Kingston (2017). “Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor”

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• Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

  Nalini Singh

  People, Over You, Emotion

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• Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

  Richard Bach

  Kids, Air, Feelings

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• I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret.

  Dan Wells

  Hurt, Taken, Thinking

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• (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

  Jean Sasson

  Grief, Sadness, Faces

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• So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?

  Tessa Dare

  Girl, Opposites, Interesting

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• God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Fall, Catharsis

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

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• You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Identity

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• I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Blessed, Eye, Voice

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• We mask our needs as the needs of others.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Needs, Needs Of Others

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Vanity, People, Deception

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
  The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Ideas

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• Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Character, Self

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• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  Alfred Jarry

  Passion, Character, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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