Quotes About Concealed

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

She felt like a part of her body had been ripped off. The fact that everyone didn't stare seemed absolutely impossible. How could a loss that big be that invisible?

Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among us. There are clairvoyants to see ghosts; but who sees the invisible emotions, the unrecorded events? Who is that sees love, more evanescent than any ghost, let alone can catch it? Who are you tell me that I don't know what love is?

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

Once in your life you had a girlfriend (or a boyfriend)... and the person never knew it.

It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

The unseen harmony is better than the visible

what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.

Como botones de nácar que estuvieran cosidos por debajo, quizás hasta dentro de la tierra.

Secrets lie in the entrails of things, in the dregs.

There was something in the set of his jaw that made her think of how she'd described him to Adeline, as a lake that was still on the surface, with a whole drowned town inside.

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.

There are so many secrets about our lives we'll never know.

Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages by Susan Weitzman (2000)

What is invisible that we cannot see, it is also invisible within us, and we connect with it.

In Sarah's eyes I see trapped tears that have spun themselves so tightly that they can't fall onto her cheeks, but will fall instead back into the empty hollow place in her. I imagine a deep, dark well inside her that's filled with all the tears she never cries, and how cold and damp she must feel under her pinafore and inside her kind, pale body.

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

shark you don't see is always more dangerous than the one you do.

A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.

But its coolness lies beneath its looks.

Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows.