Quotes About Hiding

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

There was not much interest in Sarah's life to draw researchers to the Berlin archives. Sarah, aware that she had something to hide, had led the way in shaping an image of herself as the most devoted of wives, and before her death she weeded out letters that friends, according to the custom of the day, returned to her. Her immediate survivors outdid her. They destroyed letters that even Sarah had preserved, perhaps to blur the intense unhappiness of the first decades of her marriage.

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.

What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding." "So you have to leave sanctuary in order to have it?" she asked.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage

You'd hide behind a seventy-three-year-old woman? Are you that much of a coward?

God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.

they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.

Lovat thinks you can just hide someone in a place like the Commercial Road. You can't! It might be part of one of the busiest cities on earth, but at heart the East End is just a village. Too small to hide out in.

Sin easily hides where there is no heat of trials and afflictions.

Where are you, Adam? According to the book of Genesis, Adam went into hiding after the fall. By trying to be more than human, Adam felt less than human. Before the fall, Adam was not ashamed; after the fall he was. Toxic shame is true agony. It is a pain felt from the inside, in the core of our being. It is excruciatingly painful.

These roles not only shame us but they become our refuge of hiding. As we pretend to be real men and women, we can hide the fact that we really don't know who we are. We can mood-alter by playing our role to the hilt. In the mood alteration of being a real man or woman, we can avoid our painful shame.

Shame becomes toxic because of premature exposure. We are exposed either unexpectedly or before we are ready to be exposed. We feel helpless and powerless. No wonder then that we fear the scrutinizing eyes of others. However, the only way out of toxic shame is to embrace the shame—we must come out of hiding.

I've added a few I haven't mentioned. Notice that all the roles cover up the shame-based inner core. As each member of the system plays his rigid role, the system stays frozen and unchanging. Dysfunctional families are frozen in a trancelike state. The shame-core keeps the system frozen. Everyone is in hiding. The roles cover up each person's true and authentic self.

The worst kind of pain is keeping yourself laughing to avoid the tears from falling.

I wonder can you see the sadness behind my eyes? When you see my smile, do you know what I hide behind it? When you hear me laugh, do you know what I'm really thinking? When you hear me sing, do you really hear the meaning? When I touch you, can you feel my pain?

People with physical scars try hiding them with clothing or a mask... people with emotional scars try hiding them with a smile or a laugh.

Pretending not to care but actually wanting to cry.

I should be an actor because I'm pretty dang good at hiding the pain.

Sometimes we :) to hide :( Sometimes we :D to hide :'(

Looking around your house for places to hide in case a murder ever breaks in to your house...

Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.