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Quotes About Secrets

You know, everyone here's got some little peccadillo he's hoping to hide.
~ Paul Bowles
Like any romantic, I had always been vaguely certain that sometime during my life I should come into a magic place which in disclosing its secrets would give me wisdom and ecstasy-perhaps even death.
~ Paul Bowles
No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.
~ Paul Gallico
There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked. This one had been colonised by an atechnic cult sixty years ago. Maybe they were living the life of pastoral utopianism they'd planned; maybe they had descended into savagery and were roasting and eating prisoners of war captured in tribal wars fought with stone-tipped spears. No one knew nor cared.
~ Unknown
Someone knows—someone in the government, or the army, or the police. This is a government of secrets. If there are secrets, there can be no justice.
~ Paul Theroux
as thrilling as a child's game: the hiding, the secrets, the lies, the play-acting, the giggling satisfaction, the guilt, even the furtive sex itself.
~ Paul Theroux
sucking on the secret like candy.
~ Paul Theroux
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
~ Paulo Coelho
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
~ Paulo Coelho
Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.
~ Paulo Coelho
The impression returned of Infinity and Eternity walking hand in hand; you only had to look for one of them, for example, the limitless universe, to feel the presence of the other, Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the Present, where all of life's secrets lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every atom of her body was touching the air, and the air was generous; it brought with it, from afar, secrets and perfumes to clothe her from head to toe.
~ Paulo Coelho
Que mis lágrimas corran así bien lejos, para que mi amor nunca sepa que un día lloré por él.
~ Paulo Coelho
We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words. Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.
~ Paulo Coelho
Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.
~ Unknown
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
~ Ellen Barkin
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
~ Paul Gauguin
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
~ Albert Einstein
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.
~ Joanna Baillie
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....
~ Rene Magritte
The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her. Her mate.
~ Unknown