Quotes about Concealment

Secrets are always found out, and when they are, people get hurt.

Saying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid rusted shut. He would not pry it loose now in front of this sweet sturdy woman, for if she got a whiff of the contents it would shame him. And it would hurt her to know that there was no red heart bright as Mister's comb beating in him.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Things that are covered don't heal well.

Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.

Do you have secret meetings going on in your church? You are in trouble with God!

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.