Quotes About Concealment

We conceal, but God wants to heal, and to do that, He must first expose.

I'll be the invisible girl, Everyone passing through me, No one touching.

Our lives are one masked ball.

For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.

You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.

Solo, tell me what you want; I'll get it for you, I swear! You're a guy who looks out for number one, aren't you? Isn't that what you are, Solo?" Han stared at his own lean reflection. In another man, he'd have said those eyes were too used to concealing everything but cynicism.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.

Taking the body from under the boards, he sat it on a dining-chair, but left the carrier bag over its head as he did not want to look at the face.

But she didn't ask, and so I added, "You let her believe you were looking for him." Still, my aunt didn't respond. "You lied to her." "I let her lie to herself," Aunt Beatrice corrected. "Which is what you do, Calvin, when you don't want someone you care about to know the truth.

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

The saddest part of the story to me is that no one talked about the duplicity. The missing bread was never mentioned. The people were silent. ———

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

Though we all ''perform'' for others to some extent, the mask slips easily for those who have sufferd early neglect.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

How can I write a book? you might say. I've got nothing to say. Don't let that stop you. Very few writers have anything to say. The trick is to see how long you can conceal that from the reader. The most successful writers are ones who've been able to get away with it for the greatest number of pages and years.

You have got to abstract yourself so that you present a faceless picture to society.

There are secrets so dangerous that to possess them is foolhardy. It is like storing dynamite in one's drawing-room; an explosion is always imminent, and publication would mean disaster.

But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me.

But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.

La felicidad busca la luz, por eso nos parece que el mundo es alegre; pero el sufrimiento se esconde, por eso nos parece que no existe.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

out of sight,out of mind