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Quotes About Concealment

there, behind that hedge. Keep low. After Mindy makes the call, her
~ Joe Hill
The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or
~ Joe Hill
It was always dark in my daydreams
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
~ Joe Slovo
Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
~ Joel Chandler Harris
Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.
~ Johann Sigurjonsson
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
~ Mary Balogh
All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
~ Samuel Johnson
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?
~ Jim Breuer
It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.
~ Dana Andrews
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
~ Anton Chekhov
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
~ John Green
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
~ Josephine Tey
Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.
~ Sarah Dessen
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
~ Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
~ Lauren Beukes
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer