Quotes About Concealment

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

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 things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.

When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.

There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.

Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Everywhere you looked, there it wasn't.

I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.

He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased." 

He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.

I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which escaped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I apprehended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.

He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet

Cuentan que desde entonces, muchas veces uno se encuentra con la furia, ciega, cruel, terrible y enfadada, pero si nos damos el tiempo de mirar bien, encontramos que esta furia que vemos es sólo un disfraz y que detrás del disfraz de furia, en realidad está escondida la tristeza.

La gloria es una forma de incomprensión; quizás la peor.

Instinctively he had already become proficient in the habit of simulating that he was someone, so that others would not discover his condition as no one; in London he found the profession to which he was predestined, that of the actor, who on a stage plays at being another before a gathering of people who play at taking him for that other person.

When I began writing I always said to myself that my ideas were very shallow-- that if a reader saw through them, he would despise me. So I disguised myself.

No mostré a nadie mi tesoro. A la dicha de poseerlo se agregó el temor de que lo robaran

Instinctively, he had already trained himself in the habit of pretending that he was someone, so it would not be discovered that he was no one.

pero en mi niñez he visto hombres viejos que largamente se ocultaban en las letrinas, con unos discos de metal en un cubilete prohibido, y débilmente remedaban el divino desorden.

secrecy is a hotbed of vanity

Sakyamuni means the silent one or the sage (muni) of the Sakya clan. Though he is the founder of a widely taught world religion, the ultimate core of his doctrine remains concealed, necessarily, in silence.

Empezó a tener una leve idea de lo que quería decir, y quedó maravillado al pensar en cuántos hombres andaban por el mundo, de aspecto vulgar y tranquilo, que ocultaban fantasías exóticas y poéticas creencias, insospechadas siquiera, hasta que la enfermedad privaba al cerebro de su gobierno.

the smile on his lips didn't reach his eyes.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.