Quotes About Concealment

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.

Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.

Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, "In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

There is no painting so large that the artist can hide behind it.

You can always say it's magic if you don't understand it; and, who knows, you might be right.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

No one knows that I'm smart.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

I am a smiling depressive.

On social media, you have a mask on where you are smiling, but you're crying inside. And that was me.

Everybody gets the wrong idea because I try to hide it, I try to walk around smiling. But I'm always angry.