Quotes About Concealment

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

And there 's a nice youngster of excellent pith,— Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

Lies in meinen Augen, was ich dir nicht alles sagen kann.

What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is there. It is the Empire of the Capital X.

Jade sat inconspicuously at a table largely blocked from view by the brewing vat. He, however, had excellent visibility of the entire seating area, and he could also lean slightly and look straight down the length of the bar.

He noticed Thomas tense up as Allander's name was said aloud. It was as if Jade had released it into the stagnant air of the house for the first time in years. So far, Thomas had used only euphemisms for his son's name.

No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

J'ai tout donné au soleil. Tout sauf mon ombre

Cette bonne humeur qu'il affichait en toutes circonstances cachait sa part d'ombre et de souffrance et son naturel jovial cédait quelquefois la place aux idées noires et au découragement.

Da, s? se machieze. Dar nu pentru a se face frumoas?, ci pentru a se ascunde.

I ne poznavaju?i je, on je ose?ao da njih dvoje dele isti bol. Ona je svoj nosila kao zastavu, a on je svoj skrivao iza titule doktora. Mada, na kraju krajeva, pripadali su istoj grupi.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.

A H S U D A G U–W A H

Hay deseos que se ahogan en nuestra alma de mujer, sin que los revele más que un suspiro; ideas locas que cruzan por nuestra imaginación, sin que ose formularlas el labio, fenómenos incomprensibles de nuestra naturaleza misteriosa, que el hombre no puede ni aun concebir.

dijo otro- , nos traes a conocer a una dama, y apenas si con mucha dificultad se ven los dedos de la mano.

Por los tenebrosos rincones de mi cerebro, acurrucados y desnudos, duermen los extravagantes hijos de mi fantasía esperando en silencio que el Arte los vista de la palabra para poder presentarse decentes en la escena del mundo.

You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.