Quotes About Concealment

I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.

I'm wearing this fake smile.

You act like you're okay, Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown, And smile at the same time.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

I am nothing more than a little boy inside That cries out for attention yet I always try to hide.

The fact is that there are many skeletons in the Tower's cupboard.

looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen?

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

Time...which is eternity in disguise.

To be a Jew is to renounce allegiance to false gods; to be sensitive to God's infinite stake in every finite situation; to bear witness to His presence in the hours of His concealment; to remember that the world is unredeemed. We are born to be an answer to His question.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Sorry, but they're burning the State archives." The furnaces burned for eight days, turning most of the Congo state records to ash and smoke in the sky over Brussels. "I will give them my Congo," Leopold told Stinglhamber, "but they have no right to know what I did there.

J.Lo looked miserable. You wouldn't think you could tell that when a person's wearing a ghost suit, but you can.

But if I tried to be really good and studied very very hard, perhaps things would become different one day, I would think. Meanwhile, I must not tell anyone how bad it really was.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

We colluded in this way: as long as I didn't announce that I was a kid, he wouldn't rise up as a parent, and for an hour, we could both have a little respite from our roles.

Submerged, I have become a refugee from the visible world.

A well-loved child is set a challenging precedent. In its very nature, parental love works to conceal the effort which went into generating it. It shields the recipient from the donor's complexity and sadness - and from an awareness of how many other interests, friends and concerns the parent has sacrificed in the name of love.

Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.

We need to tell ourselves a little more of the truth because we pay too high a price for our concealments. We cut ourselves off from possibilities of growth. We shut out large portions of our minds and end up uncreative, tetchy, and defensive, while others around us have to suffer our irritability, gloom, manufactured cheerfulness, or defensive rationalizations.