Quotes About Secrets

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility towards the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

I'd rather entrust my daughters to Casanova than my secrets to a novelist. Literary fires are hotter even than sexual ones.

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

I sre?an je? -Eh, sre?an? Ko bi to mogao da zna? Sre?a ili nesre?a, te tajne ?uvaju zidovi a zidovi imaju uši, ali nemaju jezik.

Tu sais pourquoi Jean Barbek s'est arrêté de parler? lui demande-t-il. - C'est une des nombreuses choses qu'il n'a jamais dites.

Quel che c'è di bello nella vita è sempre un segreto...per me è stato così...le cose che si sanno sono le cose normali, o le cose brutte, ma poi ci sono dei segreti, ed è lì che si va a nascondere la felicità.

Chi avrebbe mai pagato per farsi smascherare da un pittore e per apprendere in casa quello che di se stesso si affannava a nascondere tutti i giorni?

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

What would be my power over you, when revealing my secrets towards you, especially when discovering yours?

Death, just like life, has it's secret pains and lust. All in that to know them.

Perhaps her shoes would say something; Mma Makutsi had told her once, jokingly— and she must have been joking— told her that her shoes occasionally gave her advice. Well, perhaps they could tell her not to be so bossy. They must have witnessed it after all— shoes see everything; there are no secrets we can keep from our shoes.

she imagined what it would be like to live with somebody who had secrets. Instead of a comfortable atmosphere of trust there would be a nagging insecurity, like a corrosive crust, eating away at the fabric of the marriage. Doubts would spread like weeds, making it impossible to relax, spoiling everything.

we all have some things we are ashamed of.

Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.

When you don't talk about something, then something will talk about itself for you.

Sometimes people simply did not want to find things out. Nobody was missing, nobody was cheating on their wives, nobody was embezzling. At such times, a private detective may as well hand a closed sign on the office door and go plant melons.

A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

The bottom line on skills is this: A skill is designed to make the secrets of the best easily transferable. If you learn a skill, it will help you get a little better, but it will not cover for a lack of talent. Instead, as you build your strengths, skills will actually prove most valuable when they are combined with genuine talent.

the rest are secrets save for oriole which is a color in the afterlife

43 MIDNIGHT DISCOVERY

You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write. I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.