Quotes About Concealment

An option hides where we don't want it to hide. I will repeat that options benefit from variability, but also from situations in which errors carry small costs. So

and unappreciated upon their discovery, and remained unappreciated well after their initial use.

Though I keep trying to convince her of my internal humility and insecurity concealed under a confident exterior;

Silent evidence is what events use to conceal their own randomness, particularly the Black Swan type of randomness.

The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin.

Mom puts on a smile that looks like it belongs on somebody else's face.

You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom's room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life.

let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart

So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.

The shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.

Let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.

I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a black veil!

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

Unknown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him.

Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart.

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

If it be a sign of mourning, replied Mr. Hooper, I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.

Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire

My poor, dear, pretty Feathertop! There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was! Yet they live in fair repute, and never see themselves for what they are. And why should my poor puppet be the only one to know himself and perish for it?

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.

the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

That which hides in plain sight is the most difficult thing to find.