Quotes About Concealment

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss.

Mom?' Eaton didn't reply. 'Does she know about any of this?' 'No.' Hugh pressed the throbbing pulse at his brow. 'Did

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military action, by their government issued underwear; but many were probably never caught, it being impossible, General Gourko regretfully admitted, to lift the skirts of every female in East Prussia.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.

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disguising yourself wasn't just about making yourself look different; it was about making yourself look different from what people were looking for.

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Oh no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word.

And secret sin must ever share The secret misery.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.