Quotes About Concealment

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I like working in the shadows.

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.

I went bankrupt and then I didn't tell anyone.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylus, the illustrious Greek tragedian, noted in the fifth century B.C., "In war, truth is the first casualty.

frightening person pretending to be normal. Things

You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor.

Everything funny in a not-funny-at-all kind of way. Sarcasm as something you practiced like karate. Later concealing your mute fury when nobody fed you the opening lines.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.