Quotes About Secrets

I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.

You mustn't be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There's more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.

Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoloeague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.

Algumas coisas estão lá, cuidando da própria vida, esperando para serem descobertas. Como a América. Outras coisas é melhor que deixemos em paz. Como um rato morto no fundo do armário.

E só naquele momento, com o dia já quase no fim, a gente finalmente começou a conversar. Era como se fôssemos agentes secretos, mas tivéssemos cansado de tudo e decidido simplesmente abandonar o disfarce. (Cinco)

SHAME-BASED FAMILIES AND MULTIGENERATIONAL ILLNESS One of the devastating aspects of toxic shame is that it is multigenerational. The secret and hidden aspects of toxic shame form the wellsprings of its multigenerational life. Since it is kept hidden, it cannot be worked out. Families are as sick as their toxic shame secrets.

SHAME-BASED MARRIAGE AND PARENTAL MODELS It is obvious that a major source of toxic shame is the family system and its multigenerational patterns of unresolved secrets. More specifically, these families are created by the shame-based people who find and marry each other. Each expects the other to parent the child within him or her. Each is incomplete and insatiable. The insatiability is rooted in each person's unmet childhood needs.

The best way to come out of hiding is to find a nonshaming intimate person or social network. The operative word here is "intimate." We have to get on a core, gut level because shame is core, gut level stuff. Toxic shame masks our deepest secrets about ourselves; it embodies our belief that we are essentially defective.

Families are as sick as their toxic shame secrets.

The Unknown, happily, will be always with us, for there are infinite secrets in a blade of grass, and an eddy of wind, and a grain of dust , and human knowledge will never attain that finality when the sense of wonder shall cease.

But now that she had made him her confidant, he saw that he could not change this relationship.

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

Everyone has that one ex they don't want the world to know they dated.

The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

Every friendship, every relationship, is bound to fall apart when you start keeping things to yourself. Secrets don't destroy things...but suspicion does..

I wish I could tell you all my secrets, but you became one of them.

Only my pillow knows the amount of emotions I hide from the world.

She can't hide no matter how hard she tries, her secret disguised behind these lies. And at night she cries away her pride, with eyes shut tight staring at her inside. All her family don't know why she can't sleep at night, all her friends asking is she alright. She's trying to move and being strong. But she can only fool herself for so long...

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Never trust someone who will just get up and tell you another person's story or secrets, because they'll share yours just the same.

Never give your secret to anyone because if you can't keep it to yourself don't expect others to.