Quotes About Concealment

Secrets have a shelf life.

If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface.

There is no greater sorrow than having to live with an untold experience

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them. I didn't want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

She holds secretsthat would break spinesyet she carries them so well.

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

Pero me aguanto las ganas y no se lo digo, ni se lo diré por años que viva. Me lo guardo y me limito a pensarlo. Decírselo sería un regalo excesivo, aunque él no se enterara: estuvo alejado de mí durante demasiado tiempo, se atrevió a declararse muerto, dejó su cuerpo en una costa distante.

Lo que sucede no sucede del todo hasta que no se descubre, hasta que no se dice y hasta que no se sabe.

What some folks don't understand about the closet is that it's not just a set of walls around sexual behavior. It's a net of lies that affects absolutely everything in one's life: how you dress, who you befriend, how you walk, how you talk. And how you love.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...

Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

He was tall, dark, and handsome in his black-and-silver finery, walking as if he owned the world. Only his quick blink and the worried pucker between his eyebrows gave away the fact that he knew he didn't - not even a little piece of it.

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.