Quotes About Concealment

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide.

The world sees what it wishes to see, or, when the chips are down, what you tell it to see: it does not wish to see who, or what, or why you are.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced...Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self...

And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played—and play—in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know. The

The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters.

There were so many things one did not dare to know. And were they all patiently waiting, like demons in the dark, to spring from hiding, to reveal themselves, on some rainy Sunday morning?

I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me.

A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing—at least not deliberately—to hide. This also means that a story resolves nothing. The resolution of a story must occur in us, with what we make of the questions with which the story leaves us. A plot, on the other hand, must come to a resolution, prove a point: a plot must answer all the questions which it pretends to pose.

Perhaps he had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together—whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me.

Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.

A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love.   —Polish Proverb

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

I have already applied to the Home Ministry for security. So far, I have got nothing. For security, I am staying underground.

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.