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Quotes About Concealment

The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.
~ Wu Cheng'en
I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.
~ Yann Martel
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
~ Christopher Hitchens
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.
~ Unknown
Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
~ Christopher McDougall
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
i love walking in the rain because no one knows im dying
~ Christopher Myers
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
~ Christopher Penczak
Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.
~ Christopher Priest
I had learned very early that not getting caught was just about the solution to every problem. If you were caught then those who hadn't yet been caught had to make an example of you, unless of course you knew the right people.
~ Unknown
Costumes. The clothes we wear over who we really are. Or really want to be
~ Unknown
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes,the word FINE could simply mean FORGET IT..NOT EXPOSING .
~ Unknown
Siempre ahogo mis sensaciones, mis deseos, mis sentimientos, mis miserias y alegrías. Lo suprimo todo, eternamente, porque es menos doloroso dejar de sentir.
~ Unknown
The truth wouldn't set her free. Far from it. The truth was a Pandora's box and she had to keep the lid firmly closed
~ Unknown
She felt like a part of her body had been ripped off. The fact that everyone didn't stare seemed absolutely impossible. How could a loss that big be that invisible?
~ Unknown
Where there's a secret,' she says, 'there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.
~ Unknown
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.
~ Claire Messud
There are truths I haven't even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tem um lado mau – o mais forte e o que predominava embora eu tenha tentado esconder por causa de você – nesse lado forte eu sou uma vaca, sou uma cavala livre e que pateia no chão, sou mulher da rua, sou vagabunda – e não uma 'letrada'. Sei que sou inteligente e que às vezes escondo isso para não ofender os outros com minha inteligência, eu que sou uma subconsciente.
~ Clarice Lispector
We've been keeping our deaths a secret so as to make our lives possible.
~ Clarice Lispector
Eles olhavam e não a viam. Ela fazia mais sombra do que existia.
~ Clarice Lispector
A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
~ Unknown