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Quotes About Secret

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
~ Robert Frost
My copy of Hall's 'Secret Teachings of All Ages' has a really neat picture of Shakespeare with an onionskin engraving of Bacon that you can lay over it to see what Shakespeare would have looked like in a fruity hat. I truly recommend this book.)
~ Kenneth Hite
Révèle ton secret au vent, mais ne lui reproche pas de le répéter aux arbres.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The year was 1922, and the Curies had transformed plain earth into something rare and unimagined. A secret of the universe has been revealed, and a restless world dreamed of transformation. [p. 205]
~ Kim Edwards
It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?
~ Kim Edwards
Over the years we saw what worked and refined our methods. Violence didn't work. Numbers did. That's the secret, in case you are looking for the secret to resisting an imperial power, which was what we were doing through those years. Non-violent resistance of the total population, or as much of it as you can get. That's what works.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
All that stuff you want to forget as if it never happened, the Nazi gold, the Jewish gold, the tax havens for oligarchs and kleptocrats, the secret bank accounts for criminals of all kinds.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
So lebte Barbara, und vielleicht gab der Umstand, das sie auf Nicoletta wartete ,daß sie zu jeder Stunde des Tages auf Nicolettas überraschende Ankunft vorbereitet war, ihren Leben den geheimen Sinn, das rätselhafte Zentrum, das es bedurfte.
~ Klaus Mann
Ak, kjærligheten den gjør menneskehjærtet til en sophave, en frodig og uforskammet have hvori står hemmelighetsfuld og fræk sop.
~ Knut Hamsun
The abyss doesn't stare back. It winks.
~ Kresley Cole
I didn't bother to argue the point with him. "Will you tell me why Matthew owed you a debt?" "I kept a secret for him." Was I finally going to discover this connection between the two? "And that would be. . . ?" ". . . not a secret if I told you." "But he reneged." Aric's lips curled. "And yet I do not." Dead end.
~ Kresley Cole
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
~ Kabir
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.
~ Golda Meir
Gods are great, " said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~ Edmond Rostand
Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.
~ young steve
La paura che nasce dal desiderio] scuote terribilmente ma non causa profonde ferite. Tormenta la nostra anima ma al tempo stesso la alimenta, la rinvigorisce. E' l'azione di una forza misteriosa che conferisce al cuore umano uno stato di passività e gli dona la capacità di elevarsi, per poterlo trascinare in un luogo segreto designato dagli Dei.
~ Yukio Mishima
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
~ Yukio Mishima
Let's not look directly at what is meant to be loved in secret. Let's, for example, imagine the sea is always, constantly, and forever spilling toward us, that our screaming building is something worth escaping. — Zachary Schomburg, from "Building of Unseen Cats," Fjords Vol. 1 . (Black Ocean; 1st edition March 6, 2012)
~ Zachary Schomburg
The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.