Quotes About Concealment

People keep things from people all the time.

She can't be unhappy,' you said, 'The smiles are like stars in her eyes, And her laugh is thistledown Around her low replies.' 'Is she unhappy?' you said– But who has ever known Another's heartbreak– All he can know is how own; And she seems hushed to me, As hushed as though Her heart were a hunter's fire Smothered in snow.

Rot beneath the veneer.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

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.

Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies.

Each day, following her walk, she must have felt all the more reassured: if she willed it, people scarcely saw her, she was almost invisible. She thought that she had been cast into a mold, the identity of which was extremely vague and to which a variety of names might be given, an identity whose visibility she could control.

On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck)

Cuando más importante es una cosa, más parece que queramos callarla.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him.

If you think about a human face, it can be something you don't want to look at, so sad or so hard or so kind. It can be something you want to hide, because it pretty well shows where you've been and what you can expect. And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it.

think most people feel a difference between their real lives and the lives they have in the world. But they ignore their souls, or hide them, so they can keep things together, keep an ordinary life together.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.