Quotes About Concealment

Quando aprendemos que a linguagem nos foi dada para que possamos esconder nossos pensamentos, nos tornamos menos interessantes.- Anne

Language disguises thought.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

Ma perché si dev'essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l'uno di fronte all'altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci?»

HIDING OUR PARENTAGE was a leisure pursuit, but one we took seriously. Sometimes a parent would edge near, threatening to expose us. Risking the revelation of a family bond. Then we ran like rabbits.

Now he closed his eyes and unwished the test pass and wished instead that this little twisty key would turn Gillon's present into a secret cupboard.

dezam?girea, precum toate modele, început? în straturile de vîrf ale societ??ii, a coborît la cele de mai jos, care o È™i uzeaz? complet, È™i c? ast?zi cei care, mai mult decât oricine, se plictisesc la o adic?, se str?duiesc s? ascund? aceast? nefericire a lor, ca pe un viciu."

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people's lives.

e porque a dor que se dissimula dói mais, é mui provável que Virgília padecesse em dobro do que realmente devia padecer. Creio que isto é metafísica.

Enquanto os meses passam, faze de conta que estás no teatro, entre um ato e outro, conversando. Lá dentro preparam a cena, e os artistas mudam de roupa. Não vás lá; deixa que a dama, no camarim, ria com os seus amigos o que chorou cá fora com os espectadores. Quanto ao jardim que se está fazendo, não te exponhas a vê-lo pelas costas; é pura lona velha sem pintura, porque só a parte do espectador é que tem verdes flores

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

None of us likes to see himself as he must appear to others.

Drug couriers often use air fresheners—particularly the kind shaped like little fir trees—to cover up the smell of drugs. (Tree air fresheners are known as the "felony forest.")

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

Each daily task, is but the future in a mask.

Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a chest, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

The grown-ups who still remembered usually chose to stay silent. To deny. To pretend they'd forgotten

For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.