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Quotes About Secrets

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
~ Steven Yeun
Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense.
~ John Hodgman
Things are not all so easy to grasp and to express as most people would have us believe; most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works of art, existences full of secrets whose life continues alongside ours, whilst ours is transitory.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works of art, existences full of secrets whose life continues alongside ours, while ours is transitory.
~ Rainier Marie Rilke
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.
~ Randy Alcorn
Get to the other side" is still the basic paradigm. "Visit all the map" is handled by a "secrets"* system. Time limits add another dimension of challenge.
~ Raph Koster
He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.
~ Ray Bradbury
Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I
~ Ray Bradbury
By night the wires on the high poles tell evil tales in the dripping mist.
~ Ray Bradbury
I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a list to be made. Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness. Your own Thing stands waiting way up there in the attic shadows. If you speak softly, and write any old word that wants to jump out of your nerves onto the page... your Thing at the top of the stairs in your own private night... May well come down.
~ Ray Bradbury
And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.
~ Joseph Conrad
doomed to be the recipient of confidences...
~ Joseph Conrad
I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is.
~ Joseph Heller
Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Secrets that reside only in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You spared the adults in your household. You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
if you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside-taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
~ Joyce Carol Oates