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Quotes About Concealed

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
~ Seneca
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
where what cannot be seen is inferred by what the visible does.
~ Sharon Olds
There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary -- like a red tree growing suddenly in a room -- although this does not make them any less real.
~ Shaun Tan
The event of history is hidden in time.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.
~ Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord
Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I always said there were plenty of things going on here, right under our noses, that we couldn't see, she said, holding out her apron. I don't see with my nose, I remarked. What have you got there?
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.
~ Matt Haig
He wrote as if he'd been the one to carry the camera to each and every one of his life's events, and thus was unseen in all the pictures.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
She'd always assumed that what she kept buried down deep was imperceptible to the people around her. But she hadn't ever pressure checked the notion the way it might be pressure checked now.
~ Barry Eisler
This Asiatic pose was a side of Stalin almost no one saw.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
~ Philip James Bailey
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.
~ William Shakespeare
And in the evening concealed fluorescent tubes light the room so evenly that it is no longer illuminated, it is a pool of luminosity.
~ Joseph Roth
Er war so einfach und untadelig wie seine Konduitenliste, und nur der Zorn, der ihn manchmal ergriff, hätte einen Kenner der Menschen ahnen lassen, daß auch in der Seele des Hauptmanns Trotta die nächtlichen Abgründe dämmerten, in denen die Stürme schlafen und die unbekannten Stimmen namenloser Ahnen.
~ Joseph Roth
The real point is always buried in the subtitles.
~ Evan Davis
I think most of the impact I have over time most people will not actually know about.
~ Scarlett Johansson
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
~ Bhagavad Gita
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
~ Origen
The more flowery a person's speech … the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Aquel vestido de sencillos pliegues ocultaba un corazón atormentado, y aquellos labios tan púdicos en ningún momento descubrían la tormenta que se libraba en su interior.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Ihre Hand ist an eurer Kehle, doch seht ihr Sie nicht.
~ H.P. Lovecraft