Quotes about Masking
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
— Margaret Atwood
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
— Mark Twain
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is uniquely in our uncrucified thoughts and unsanctified attitudes that unclean spirits, masking themselves as our thoughts and hiding themselves in our attitudes, find access into our lives.
— Francis Frangipane
A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having and defending and celebrating the Bible instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying the Bible, masks an enormous amount of nonreading.
— Eugene Peterson
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
— Thomas Merton
Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.
— Maya Angelou
We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.
— David Harewood
She dried her tears and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow How little dreaming all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow With that sweet look and lively tone And bright eye shining all the day They could not guess at midnight lone How she would weep the time away
— Emily Bronte
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused.
— Anne Frank