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Quotes About Hiding

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna
~ Unknown
Feelings also may be inescapable, Edward learned, but there are ways of cheating them. Of diverting them. Of hiding from them. Your own howls can be drowned out by the howls of the rest of the world, if you set about it properly. If you are naturally self-deprecating, and exceptionally under-endowed with egotism, the process comes almost naturally. Eventually you are exercised only about the atrocities around. Or so it can seem.
~ Penelope Lively
I DO NOT hear them, but I know they are near. The creatures. The men. They hunt me through the rocks and jungle trees. I must move, but I cannot. I fear my ankle is broken. If I stay, they will flush me out of this hiding place. When they are through with Father, they will come for me. I pray they spare him. It is I whom they seek.
~ Peter Lerangis
But by the third year he had come to wonder whether Laura's purpose wasn't the shield behind which he was still hiding his own, even from himself.
~ Philip Roth
The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide.
~ David Gemmell
Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness. He
~ David Jeremiah
I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.
~ David Levithan
But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain. One
~ Zadie Smith
But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain.
~ Zadie Smith
In the first week I found out how much of my old life was about hiding from life. Confronted with the problem of life served neat, without distraction or adornment or superstructure, I had almost no idea of what to do with it.
~ Zadie Smith
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Tom believed that too much activity and technology was guaranteed to drive the phenomenon into hiding. He thought the NIDS group should set up a command post in nearby Roosevelt or Vernal and silently and surreptitiously creep onto the property at night while disturbing as few geographical landmarks as possible.
~ Unknown
They were few, but they were hardened in fire. They had been cast out and many would hunger as he did: for a tribe, and for a chance to strike back at a world that had abandoned them. "It is begun here," Temujin whispered. "I have had enough of hiding. Let them hide from me.
~ Conn Iggulden
For a moment they all stood silent. The departure of this autumn ship gave rise to many different thoughts. Something came out of hiding in the most hardened.
~ Unknown
His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!
~ Corrie Ten Boom
And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
That's the S.D.'s favorite trick—feeling for a warm spot on a bed." © Hans Poley/Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam Two Jewish women during an actual drill of the hiding place in 1943.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe...
~ Corrie Ten Boom
A thousand years ago or more They opened up the devil's door And a cwene of dark and death Crawled out, and creeping stole our breath And we've been hiding ever-more.
~ Unknown
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
~ Craig Johnston
There ain't no room For the hopeless sinner Who would hurt all mankind Just to save his own Have pity on those Whose chances grow thinner Cause there's no hiding place From the Kingdom's Throne
~ Curtis Mayfield
There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.
~ Peter Hook
Beatrix fled to the one place where she knew he wouldn't find her. The irony was hardly lost on her, that she was hiding from Christopher in the place she had most longed to share with him. And she was well aware that she could not hide from him forever. There would be a reckoning. But after having seen his face when he realized that she was the one who had deceived him, Beatrix wanted to put off that reckoning for as long as possible.
~ Lisa Kleypas
locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding.
~ Lisa Renee Jones