“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Gay Science

“The history of many saints, beatified by the church, is repugnant. It shows nothing more than a profound aberration of the human spirit in search of ultra-terrestrial chimeras.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

“Amid all these things, beyond all these things every man and nation, every plant and animal, every god and demon, charges upward like an army inflamed by an incomprehensible, unconquerable Spirit.
We struggle to make this Spirit visible, to give it a face, to encase it in words, in allegories and thoughts and incantations, that it may not escape us.
But it cannot be contained in the twentysix letters of an alphabet which we string out in rows; we know that all these words, these allegories, these thoughts, and these incantations are, once more, but a new mask with which to conceal the Abyss.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God

“isn't every kind of conformity really a sort of masquerade, the mask at once conspicuous and disguising?”

Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

George Orwell book Shooting an Elephant

“We mask our needs as the needs of others.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

“if you ask me many of Americans have been wearing the mask even before from covid 19. the mask i refer to is of course the clown's mask.”

Dril Twitter user

“Every single one of us needs to be there for each other, not just in the big profound ways but sometimes just the really small and important ways.”

Dan Howell (1991) British video blogger and radio personality