157 Quotes About Masks

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

We have always been wearing masks it's just that it has become mandatory when one's own life is threatened.

What is a woman to me? The answer must be: A projection. Who is projecting, and for what reason, I cannot necessarily know from the performance itself. Mr. Umewaka and Mr. Mikata do not when playing their feminine roles feel themselves to be women; they strive, as I so often in my wonderment repeat, to be nothing; yet when they enact women I see them as women. Meanwhile the psyche within a male body which mechanically performs itself as such may see itself as female

I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.

Now I become myself.Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places;I have been dissolved and shaken,Worn other people's faces,

We have to walk out on ourselves, expel ourselves from our inner castle, and drop our formatted masks if we want to encounter people in the flesh, without makeup. ("Steps in the unknown")

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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?

Masked, I advance.