Quotes About Concealment

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

Appearance in disguise hides the original form.

Facing visible foes is easier than invisible.

We make it especially hard for others to observe our trait when it means we are observing and not "behaving," at least at first. Further, we are so responsive to our environments that we can be something like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in.

If someone caring for you became angry or dangerous, the conscious mind buried that information as too awful to acknowledge

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.

She meant something different: she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found. And since I know her well, or at least I think I know her, I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.

In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed.

In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

Le cose brutte che non dici a nessuno diventano cani che ti mangiano la testa di notte mentre dormi.

If I could conceal from myself the impression that the life had been drained out of me like blood and saliva and mucus from a patient during an operation, maybe I could deceive Mario as well.

No es el barrio el que está enfermo, no es Nápoles, sino el planeta, es el universo, o los universos. La habilidad consiste en ocultar u ocultarse el verdadero estado de las cosas.

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

answered slowly: I don't know, I don't want to know. And then I admitted that there had been a kind of admiration for her body, maybe that, yes, but I ruled out anything ever happening between us. Too much fear, if we had been seen we would have been beaten to death.

Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.

O motivo havia sido um gesto sem sentido, sobre o qual, justamente por ser sem sentido, decidi não contar a ninguém. As coisas mais difíceis de falar são as que nós mesmos não conseguimos entender.

As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme.

Então o que fazer? Mais uma vez dar razão a ela? Aceitar que ser adulto é parar de se mostrar, é aprender a se esconder até se dissipar?

I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.