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Quotes About Concealed

I see that under your old-goof act, beneath your sweet nutty disguise, you're maybe someone else entirely, and that part of you is locked away right now. It's like you've caged the beast.
~ Salman Rushdie
People called him paranoiac and he accepted the label. He had a whole theory of paranoia. I don't think he remembers that now. He said paranoia was to be understood as essentially optimistic, because the paranoid believed that there was a meaning to events, that the world made sense, even though that sense was concealed.
~ Salman Rushdie
For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The poison employed by Sainte-Croix has been tried in all the ways, and can defy every experiment. This poison floats in water, it is the superior, and the water obeys it; it escapes in the trial by fire, leaving behind only innocent deposits; in animals it is so skilfully concealed that no one could detect it; all parts of the animal remain healthy and active; even while it is spreading the cause of death, this artificial poison leaves behind the marks and appearance of life.
~ Alexandre Dumas
For behind all present happiness is concealed a fear for the future.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Oh, you're moonlight, he'd said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.
~ Alice Hoffman
The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.
~ Alice Hoffman
What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye.
~ Alice Hoffman
It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.
~ Alice Hoffman
The secret name sounded like glass, something broken and strange
~ Alice Hoffman
My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.
~ Alice Munro
It was as if she had a murderous needle somewhere in her lungs, and by breathing carefully, she could avoid feeling it. But every once in a while she had to take a deep breath, and it was still there.
~ Alice Munro
We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.
~ Alyson Richman
When Death comes cloaked in mystery, he is terrible indeed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Lee's face was a Spock-on-the-bridge-of-the-Enterprise blank.
~ Joe Hill
Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.
~ Joe Simpson
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
~ George Washington
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
~ William Shakespeare
But the sadness was still there, underneath.
~ E. Lockhart
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Invisible things are the only realities.
~ Edgar Allan Poe