Quotes About Concealment

To?i avem pove?ti pe care nu vrem s? le spunem.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something. A theoretical physicist like Sheldon Lee Glashow cannot afford to write in the unreadable prose of the social sciences. He needs to communicate exceptionally complex truths in as simple and clear a language as possible.

Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I wont remember?

Don't show your flaws.

Not for me, I'd always assumed they were dirty," Professor Pendleton said. "But that comes part and parcel with working in Subtlety. You don't see that much work in the shadows and assume there aren't a few things done in true darkness.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

We wear the mask that grins and lies...

Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

We fought to hide our fear, to maintain our positions as predators rather than victims. In reality, we were all victims.

I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to fight to conceal their misery, fear, and weakness.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.