Quotes About Conceal

So we are of the world, after all; we should have known that. We did know it, I believe; but we had to withdraw a little, pretend a little, so that we could—

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

Don't speak till sound has eclipsed its idea.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

one can merely disguise one's wounds

She swallowed back

Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.

The wall is an architectural striptease.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

To put it more precisely, since language is by definition the expression of civilised man, violence is silent. Civilisation and language grew as though violence was something outside. But silence cannot do away with things that language cannot state. Violence is as stubbornly there just as much as death, and if language cheats to conceal universal annihilation, the placid work of time, language alone suffers, language is the poorer, not time and not violence.

Poetry reveals a power of the unknown. But the unknown is only an insignificant void if it is not the object of a desire. Poetry is a middle term, it conceals the known within the unknown: it is the unknown painted in blinding colors, in the image of a sun.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Anyone who suffers from depression knows once you're in it you're in it and you pretend to everybody till the last second of the day you're OK. Or you go the other way and don't leave the house.

Feelings were best tucked out of sight where they couldn't get in anyone's way.

Benjamin Franklin wasn't trusted to write the US Declaration of Independence because it was feared he would conceal a joke in it.

O hide me, hide me from myself

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it; accordingly, they parade their doctrines in all seriousness as true sensu proprio, and as absurdities form an essential part of these doctrines we have the great mischief of a continual fraud.

LAURA. There are some circumstances in a family which through honor and conscience one is forced to conceal from the whole world—— DOCTOR.

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell.

No, it was the livid red lines scoring Will's wrists, the long, jagged scars that couldn't be disguised, no matter how swiftly Nathan pulled down Will's sleeves.

I had become very good by then at smiling and saying nothing at all.