Quotes About Concealment

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be." Sam

Horror is the 'removal' of masks.

You read in every textbook that cliché: Power corrupts. In my opinion, I've learned that power does not always corrupt. Power can cleanse. When you're climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary, and you have to conceal your aims. Because if people knew your aims, it might make them not want to give you power.

He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

Pike stepped into the first bay and spotted the man from the Monte Carlo in an office at the rear of the building. He was in front of a television with his back to the door. The Dodgers were playing a day game. Pike checked to see that the other two men were still struggling with the fender, then slipped toward the office as silently as a fish gliding through water. On

We're all stuck in armor of a kind. Yours is merely easier to find.

Revelation WE make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really out. 'Tis pity if the case require (Or so we say) that in the end We speak the literal to inspire The understanding of a friend. But so with all, from babes that play At hide-and-seek to God afar, So all who hide too well away Must speak and tell us where they are

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.

It takes great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, 1613–1680 Halliwell

when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

Spectacle and entertainment, clearly, are excellent devices to conceal your intentions, but they cannot be used indefinitely. The public grows tired and suspicious, and eventually catches on to the trick.

We have a continual desire to communicate our feelings and yet at the same time the need to conceal them for proper social functioning.

Authority: One who is good at combating the enemy fools it with inscrutable moves, confuses it with false intelligence, makes it relax by concealing one's strength, . . . deafens its ears by jumbling one's orders and signals, blinds its eyes by converting one's banners and insignias, . . . confounds its battle plan by providing distorted facts. —Tou Bi Fu Tan, A Scholar's Dilettante Remarks on War (16th century A.D.)

What's the deal with the secret Santa thing?" "If I told you, it wouldna be a secret.

It is the paradox of truly perceiving that the more you do the less effective you are, and the more you hide the more you show.

You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it's hard to summon it when you really need it.

And I knew a secret to caring for someone, had learned it just this moment. You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Comprendí que el mundo no ve el interior de las personas, y que poco le importan las esperanzas, penas y sueños que albergamos bajo una máscara de piel y de hueso. Es así de sencillo, cruel y absurdo.

El silencio de Sohrab no era el silencio que alguien se impone a sí mismo por determinadas convicciones, ni el de los manifestantes que reivindican su causa sin pronunciar palabra. Era el silencio de quien se ha refugiado en un escondrijo oscuro, de quien se ha hecho un ovillo y se ha ocultado.

All her life, Parwana had made sure to avoid standing in front of a mirror with her sister [...] But in public, every stranger's eye was a mirror. There was no escape

Ora so che ci sono persone che sentono l'infelicità con la stessa inevitabilità con cui altre amano: in segreto, con intensità e senza rimedio.