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Quotes About Hiding

Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the badly brought up central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.
~ Anne Frank
I wanted darkness. To hide from her and the feelings that welled up in me, and the great consuming fear that I was utterly inadequate to make her happy, or to make myself happy by pleasing her.
~ Anne Rice
Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.
~ Seth Godin
You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We're hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding from that loser? He wouldn't even make good barbecue. Barely take the edge off my peckishness. Hmmm…How come there's no food here? (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't wanna die, man. They're not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I'm hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.
~ Josh Lanyon
Patty felt another blush stain her cheeks as she drew her knees up and, hurrying her feet under her bulk, hid herself in differential equations again.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What I have always found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
It is true she doesn't exercise, her cholesterol is sky-high. But all that is only a good excuse, hiding how it's her soul, really, that is wearing out.
~ Elizabeth Strout
There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man's self. The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is. And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.
~ bacon francis x
I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
~ Karl Pilkington
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
~ Saki
You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.
~ Sam Shepard
What is the scariest thing that can happen? A child can disappear without a trace. A man could follow you at night. Someone could hide behind your bedroom door. There is a small throw rug in the room. There is a wooden chair by the darkening window. There is someone hiding behind my bedroom door. Anything solid in my neck snaps, and I'm screaming, looking into this hideous face, like some dark mold, a toxic messy thing. There
~ Samantha Hunt
What is the scariest thing that can happen? A child can disappear without a trace. A man could follow you at night. Someone could hide behind your bedroom door. There is a small throw rug in the room. There is a wooden chair by the darkening window. There is someone hiding behind my bedroom door.
~ Samantha Hunt
Yeah! I'm eccedentesiast because I know No-one is going to understand my pain.
~ Sanya Gupta
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
~ William Shakespeare
But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic. [...] I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make—make a difference in the world.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Cuando más importante es una cosa, más parece que queramos callarla.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we really don't know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad.But we really are.
~ Mark Haddon
Some very wealthy people gain significance by hiding their wealth.
~ Anthony Robbins
Please let me go, I won't tell...
~ April Henry
It's the human condition. We're all more or less looking for a place to hide.
~ Shirley Ann Grau