Quotes About Concealment

Magic let you jump over the "why" and make use of what was hidden, all from the comfort of your kitchen sink.

the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the "Just fine, thank you, and how are you?" reply to the "How are you today?" The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

It is easy to conceal an emotion no longer felt, much harder to conceal an emotion felt at the moment, especially if the feeling is strong. Terror is harder to conceal than worry, just as rage is harder to conceal than annoyance. The stronger the emotion, the more likely it is that some sign of it will leak despite the liar's best attempt to conceal it.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

I don't get superheroes," she says, "if you could see through everything you'd see nothing at all.

I've never quite understood the double Janus face of bi – Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, especially closets.

Secrets upon secrets. Thus by inexorable degrees does the love that dares not speak its name build walls instead, till a house is nothing but closets.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Everything that is not as it appears, I think it is from your country.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

a lot of the time we don't tell anyone because we can't.

What we can't bear to know or feel, we often find a way to hide from ourselves, and hide well.

He kept his emotions locked away behind a wall, which made him a wonderful negotiator.

This is how people wanted to appear to the world and to later generations. It is how they wished to be remembered no matter how hard life might have become. They framed themselves in their best clothes and with their most valuable possessions and smiled. Hard times and collapsing marriages and heavy labor was nobody's business but their own.

If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

Enséñame a ocultar aquello que nunca he sabido mostrar

Men and women rarely admit their fear of freedom openly, however, tending rather to camouflage it—sometimes unconsciously—by presenting themselves as defenders of freedom.