Quotes About Concealment

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Sometimes she would hide her eyes behind her hands, and then no words could get through to her.

Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all, and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the trees, in the air.

The most widespread individuality of writers consists, after all, in the fact that each conceals his bad qualities in an entirely particular way.

And so long as you say 'one' instead of 'I,' there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is yourself you feel as though transfixed and horrified.

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Me avergoncé de mí mismo cuando me di cuenta de que la vida era una fiesta de disfraces; y yo asistía con mi rostro real

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.

I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.' She could be using anger to cover more vulnerable needs.

But he stood there, his eyes riveted on that tattoo. She looked over her shoulder again. "It's called a tramp stamp," she said. "I got it when I was fifteen, to be cool." "I know what it's called. I just can't make out what it is." "It's vines in the shape of my name, and I'm not showing you any more of it. Let's get this show on the road, huh?" "Right," he said, going off to his toolbox.