Quotes About Concealment

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.

I don't have a supermodel body. I'm always trying to hide something.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

In 2011, a lot of people didn't even know I did 'Tupac Back.'

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.

I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.

People forget what they want to forget.

I can hide as much as I want in my colours

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn"t ever want to be found.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."