Quotes About Concealment

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and hides us with His cloak.

Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

Minos says I'm nothing more than Nothing. Can Nothing take a form and call it me? But nothing is ever what it seems. Watch Nothing laugh. See Nothing cry. Hear Nothing scream.

Keep your personal life private. Take the risk of people not knowing you. Anything you do reveal, trust me, will eventually come back to haunt you.

The more we identify with our psychologically and socially constructed self, the more deeply we hide from God, ourselves and others.

most people who do a great deal of harm in the world are protected against the knowledge that they do so.

Sprofondò in se stessa, cancellando tutto quello che le stava attorno, quel peso opprimente e insopportabile. Fuggì, anche se nessuno se ne accorse.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.15

Keep up self-definition and you'll never be apparent.

Practicing deception to conceal one's true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are the core concepts of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another who fairly delivers his arms.

Hiding what really happened in the past is essential for the manipulators if they are to hide what is happening now.

For written messages, the Chinese would often write on exceedingly thin silk or paper, which they rolled into a ball and covered with wax. The messenger hid the wax ball, or "la wan," somewhere about his person, or in his rectum, or he sometimes swallowed it.

We all have things we cannot deal with," he said. In the end you just look away and pretend they're not happening." - Johannes Forsell

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.

A Lunda slave, for whom I interceded to be freed of the yoke, ran away, and as he is near the Barna, his countrymen, he will be hidden. He told his plan to our guide, and asked to accompany him back to Tanganyika, but he is eager to deliver him up for a reward:

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. —Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret