Quotes About Privacy

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. —Gabriel Garcia Marquez

know about me via legal means. But you cannot demand that I provide you with it. And if you press,

There are plenty of things that a teenage boy doesn't tell his mother. As we get older, there are more and more things we hold back, things too hard to say or too embarrassing to explain. We do this to protect our mothers as much as ourselves, because let's face it—most of our thoughts are truly unthinkable.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

poco es lo que se hace público, poco lo que interesa, poco lo que quiere conocer la gente, que está fijada en lo suyo, cada uno en lo propio y lo de los demás qué importa.

Contármelo a mí es lo más parecido a no contárselo a nadie.

I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

De nuestros pensamientos no hay testigos, no tenemos por qué ser respetuosos ni corteses en ellos.

We are caught in a growth trap. This is the problem with no name or face, the frustration so many feel. It is the logic driving the jobless recovery, the low-wage gig economy, the ruthlessness of Uber, and the privacy invasions of Facebook.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Tell how it is normal to be very comfortable on the outside but very uncomfortable on the inside. Tell how funny it all is. But tell a little something else, too. What can it hurt? Tell a little something else--about how you can be a nonconformist and about how you can be an outsider. And tell how you are entitled to a little privacy. But for goodness' sake, say all that very softly.

There's an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don't air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and dark funks really took place on the expedition, they're nobody else's business.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by oneself? You're so shy, and yet you're so public. I always feel as if I were in the convent again--or on the stage before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.

After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name." "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

Now, that's what you call a vicious French queen. I never discussed your penis size – " "Bet you did," Kevin said, "at the beginning. I've heard the way gay guys talk at the gym. Nothing's sacred. Not even my poor little penis.

I was aware of the treacherous air vents above us, conducting the sounds we were making upstairs. Maybe dad was listening. Or maybe, just like Kevin, he was unaware of anything but the pleasure spurting up out of his body and into mine.

Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted.

If I'm working very hard, which is very seldom, the last thing I want to do in order to relax is to be with people and babbling away and so forth. So I go to the movies or read a book or watch any of my thousands of tapes upstairs.

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.