Quotes about Concealment

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.

Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.

We conceal, but God wants to heal, and to do that, He must first expose.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.