Quotes About Concealment

Bigger. Biggest ranch. Biggest steer. Biggest houses. Biggest hat. Biggest state. A mania for bigness. What littleness did it hide?

I do believe the most of me Floats under water; and men see Above the wave a jagged small Mountain of ice, and that is all. Only the depths of other peaks May know my substance when it speaks, And steadfast through the grinding jam Remain aware of what I am. Myself, I think, shall never know How far beneath the wave I go.

Vestido azul, que pasará a la historia como el objeto de la primera mentira que le dije a mi novio. La primera de unas cuantas. Mentiras nuevas, mentiras frescas, mentiras recién estrenadas. Me pesan en el estómago como una comida mal digerida. Odio decir mentiras. Me gusta pensar que soy una persona sincera. Me gusta experimentar la fortaleza, la energía que a una le da saber que está diciendo la verdad sin fisuras, sin dobleces, sin ocultamientos.

Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks.

men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves…It is evident that the successful propagandist must understand the true motives and not be content to accept the reasons which men give for what they do.

I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.

Sch . . . you know who.

El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide].

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal.

Darkness which may be felt.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

God hides things by putting them all around us.

A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.

Be sure your sin will find you out.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden

To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind.

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everyone does