Quotes about secrets
Omar Khayyám - Quatrains - Ballades
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain I have a secret that I cannot share.
Dwayne Johnson -
I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Paul Tournier -
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Debasish Mridha -
A good writer is a magician she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.
Adhish Mazumder -
Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.
Anthony Liccione -
What you see will hurt you what you don't see will hurt you.
Andrew Sean Greer - The Story of a Marriage
How hollow to have no secrets left you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
Erin Kelly - He Said/She Said
that's the thing with secrets. They're leaky you can't decide to share the bits that suit you without a million questions oozing out. You have to solder a part of yourself shut.
Munia Khan -
We all have our secrets some people like to hide it and some just don’t like to reveal.
Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas
Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.
Dana Candler - Deep Unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace
It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.
E.M. Forster -
In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told
Angel Ramon Medina -
You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
Emily Thorne -
Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most.
K.M. Golland - Discovering Stella
They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.
Judith Spencer - Satans High Priest
The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe's guilt. Some shared the secrets and kept the silence. Others would not have believed if they had been told. They would not have wanted to know. As those who saw and ignored the smoke from the crematoria of Hitler's Germany, they did not want to know that their world was not as it seemed.
J. Lynn - Be with Me
Want to know a secret?""Yeah!" His smile grew big and broad."I don't know how to saddle a horse either. And I've never even ridden on one before." His eyes grew wide as the moon. "Jase!" he bellowed, spinning toward his brother."She's never ridden a horse before!" Well, there went my secret.
Judith Spencer - Satans High Priest
For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those who enacted them. What they could not deny or disavow, they could distort. They could blame the victims, who deserved to die for fighting or crying or for failing to fight or cry. They found encouragement for such a stance in a general culture accustomed to blaming vic
E. Hoffmann Price -
There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.
Cory Duchesne -
Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic.
Dara Reidyr -
There are those of us who nature is awakening to the secrets of the universe; apart from religious dogma or occult dabbling. It is Natural Law. It is awakening the minds and quickening the senses of those whom it's calling its descendants. Nature is fighting for its rightful place, which can never be fully usurped. Those who are most open to this knowledge are artists (poets, musicians, writers) who also happen to be free thinkers or "outsiders" to the system. We hear a voice that is calling us
David Gross -
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. Early on I was fascinated by theoretical physics and determined to become a theoretical physicist. I had no real idea what that meant, but it seemed incredibly exciting to spend one's life attempting to find the secrets of the universe by using one's mind.
Jalaluddin Rumi -
I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
Emmi Itäranta - Memory of Water
Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.
Diane Chamberlain - and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!
Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
Pat Conroy - South of Broad
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Joyce Rachelle -
Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.
Andrew Crofts - Secrets of the Italian Gardener
Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.
J. Matthew Nespoli -
Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it.
Sue Miller - While I Was Gone
For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
Stefanos Livos - A Life In A Moment
No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and everything crumbles. That’s why it remains intact and incorruptible in time, waiting for its ultimate destiny to be revealed.
Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Prince
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
Jennifer Jabaley - Lipstick Apology
[S]ecrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be explosive. But there are two types of secrets. Small secrets, like small stars, will eventually burn out. With time and space they lose their importance and simply vanish. No harm done. But big secrets, like massive stars, with time and constant fear grow stronger, creating a gravitational pull that eventually ... When they get so big, they become a black hole.
Lacey Thorn -
Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.
Tim Kreider - We Learn Nothing
What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.
Susan Bennett - Late Discoveries: An Adoptee's Quest for Truth
Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.
Sue Miller - While I Was Gone
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lie
Rod Duncan - Unseemly Science
It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.
Jillian Cantor - Margot
I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.
Dawn Lanuza - The Last Time I'll Write About You
Was I a secret not worth sharingOrWas I a fact not worth telling?
Lily Amis - My Sweet Inspiration
Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,Secrets and cheats R not only predictedto fail but also a waste of precious timeand energie! U can’t fool yourself 4ever!
Deyth Banger -
Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.
Johnny Rich - The Human Script
These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.
Shannon L. Alder -
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
Åsa Larsson - Sun Storm
Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.
Sidney Knight - Alex
His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.
Carla H. Krueger - The Social Worker
I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.
T.L. Martin - Touched by Death
Darkness watches me from every angle. My only friend. From its own place within the silence, it speaks to me in a strange way. It whispers secrets in my ear, telling me this is where I’m meant to be. It’s so certain, not a trace of doubt. And I think . . . I think it may be right.
Kiersten White - In the Shadows
In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.
Oliver Markus -
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.
Henry Green -
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
Akshay Vasu -
She was the sky full of surprises. Her dreams were blue and breathtaking as a bright day and her secrets were dark and poetic as a cold night. Either way, she was the most beautiful mess that one had ever come across.
J. Richard Singleton -
The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.
Terry Brooks - Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these... detours. Perhaps, just once, the uncovering should be left to someone else."Qui-Gon looked suddenly sad. "No, Obi-Wan. Secrets must be exposed when found. Detours must be taken when encountered. And if you are the one who stands at the crossroads or the place of concealment, you must never lea
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.
Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
S.R. Ford - Mimgardr
Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.
Ina Catrinescu -
Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.
Michael Morpurgo -
Secrets are lies by another name.
Catherine Doyle - Vendetta
Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?
Marty Rubin -
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Windy Poplars
We always hate people who surprise our secrets…
N'Zuri Za Austin - Fragments of a Reflection
I hate looking at you sometimes. Looking into the eyes of a woman that holds so many secrets, so much pain, so many regrets. On the surface, you seem so normal - as if life has been kind to you. But your eyes. - your eyes reveal a different story. Your eyes reveal...
N'Zuri Za Austin - Fragments of a Reflection
I hate looking at you sometimes. Looking into the eyes of a woman that holds so many secrets, so much pain, so many regrets. On the surface, you seem so normal - as if life has been kind to you. But your eyes - your eyes reveal a different story. Your eyes reveal...
Paula Stokes - The Art of Lainey
When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.
Dorothy Koomson - The Woman He Loved Before
I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.
Alyse M. Gardner - Slayers
Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.
Rose Wynters - Phase Four: Analyze
I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger. It was time to find Kellan.
Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven Boys
The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.
Holly Black - White Cat
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
C.G. Jung -
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Richard Paul Evans - The Mistletoe Promise
Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?
André Malraux -
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Idries Shah - Reflections
A real secret is something which only one person knows.
Stone Sour - Stonesour
What a skeletal wreck of man this is.Translucent flesh and feeble bones,the kind of temple where the whores and villains try to tempt the holistic domes.Running rampid with free thought to free form, and the free and clear.When the matters at hand are shelled out like lint at alaundry mat to sift and focus on the bigger, better, now.We all have a little sin that needs venting,virtues for the rending and laws and systems and stems are rippedfrom the branches of office, do you know where your post
Elizabeth Eulberg - Better off Friends
Secrets only ended up hurting other people.
Jim Crace - Harvest
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
Edwin Way Teale - Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
John Mark Green -
The Ache That Would Not LeaveBehind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures and watching the sun rise over unfamiliar mountains, or coffee in a street café, set to the background music of a foreign language. It was the smell of the ocean, with dizzying seagulls whirling in a cobalt sky; exotic foods and strange faces, in a city where no one knew her name. She wanted secrets w
Anna Godbersen - Rumors
Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Man of the Crowd
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.
M.R.C. Kasasian - Death Descends on Saturn Villa
You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.
Oscar Wilde -
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Barbara Davis -
The tide, you see, is a fickle thing: stealing in, sliding away, always, always turning. She comes when you're not looking, a silent, liquid thief, only to rush away again, retreating from the shore like a coward. She gives sometimes too, though in fleeting, unexpected moments, yielding up her treasures and her dead--but never, ever her secrets.
Fiona Barton - The Widow
It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it.
Sara Sheridan - Operation Goodwood
The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.
Anthony Liccione -
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
Red Delachina -
A mystery is an unknown puzzle to solve like lies and secrets that you need to know. Lies and secrets that are like a cancer in our soul. They eat away what is good and leave only DESTRUCTION behind. A mystery to discover which makes life more COMPLICATED as it seems to be.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!
Deyth Banger -
Please get off me, please, I don't wanna to have something with you" (Well said, by a woman (The Wolf of Wall Street) ), as far as I can see I really like how is made everything, unfortunately what happens is just incrediable from one point of a view. How business man, goes will go in jail for 20 years, his wife have fuck with some kind a Swedish man, who works for her husband,.. everyone should check out this film. That's how everything goes, that's what happens backstage!Anger and agressive st
Emily Andrews -
My mother's mouth drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.''Yes Mom. I remember. That's why I'm here, looking like this.'An orderly knocks on the door and announces that visiting time is over.My mother and I look at each other awkwardly, and hug.'I love you,' she says.'I love you too, Mom.''You aren't telling them too much are you?' she asks, afraid.I sign. 'No Mommy, I'm not.'She's visibly relieved. She leaves the room.The orderley comes back and e
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
Carol K. Carr - India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy
Yes, women have always had secrets and always will. I'm afraid men would be very distressed to learn what their darlings were thinking. Frankly, I don't think men are strong enough to bear the shock.
Louise Rozett - Confessions of an Angry Girl
You like him, Rose. Why don't you just admit that, at least to me?
Ellen J. Barrier -
Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
Liz Czukas - Ask Again Later
It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.