Quotes About Concealment

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble.

Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.

And when one of our successful men had what he needed or wanted, he reassumed his virtue as easily as changing his shirt, and for all one could see, he took no hurt from his derelictions, always assuming that he didn't get caught.

I had made myself believe that the eyes are not the mirror of the soul. Some of the deadliest little female contraptions I ever saw had the faces and the eyes of angels.

I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes.

Alice retired to the background until she was barely visible at all.

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand Workin' in the dark against your fellow man But as sure as God made black and white What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.