Quotes About Concealment

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.

Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I have no doubt that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself all at once. We see him only the way a louse that sits upon him would.

You'll just never know...so many emotions I choose not to show..

Something deeply hidden has to be behind things.

Das Schönste, was wir erleben können, ist das Geheimnisvolle

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Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

I think of you so incessantly, so insistently. The thought of you is always there. It lies hidden, a latency, in the most unlikely things and places, ready at the command of some chance association to jump out at me from its ambush.

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

Makeup peeled off her like plaster from an old Moscow building.