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Quotes About Concealment

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
~ Unknown
Worse of all, I had to live with a terrible secret. I told lies to keep people from finding out what I'd done and then I had to tell more lies to cover up the first ones. Through it all, I felt like scum. I regretted what I had done and I hated pretending all the time but it was too late. - Kit Hathaway
~ Peg Kehret
Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Not only does god definitely play dice … he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
~ Penn Jillette
Look away, look away, look away …
~ Percival Everett
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.
~ Perry Brass
The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.
~ Unknown
Guilt is sometimes camouflaged fear
~ Unknown
for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?
~ Peter Ackroyd
It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
~ Peter Baynham
One needs to realize that the symptoms of vital depression are often not spontaneously mentioned Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They are often concealed by other symptoms which may seem to be more severe. They may not come to the patient's mind even with questioning. Patients admit to these symptoms only as the links of an integral whole in a dialogue that is free and comprehensible.
~ Peter D. Kramer
The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
~ Unknown
I smiled, but internally, unseen, using no visible facial muscles.
~ Unknown
He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.
~ Unknown
Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.
~ Peter Heller
What was concealed in the Old is revealed in the New." The New Testament itself is
~ Peter J. Gomes
He remembered a conversation he'd once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the 'perfect murder'. The Chief had replied that there was. 'It's the one we never hear about,' he said.
~ Peter James
Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
~ Job 10:13
The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
~ Job 40:22
But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
~ Jeremiah 49:10