Quotes About Secrets
1. And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
2. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
3. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
4. If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
5. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
6. I’d learned that some things are best kept secret
7. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone
8. The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
9. I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.
10. A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
11. Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
12. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
13. Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
14. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
15. Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
16. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
17. A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
18. I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
19. I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
20. Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.
21. The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.
22. True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.
23. I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.
24. I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.
25. I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
26. The best secrets are the most twisted
27. Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
28. Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish.
29. It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.
30. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
31. Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets.
32. Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
33. I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin – everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone – and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
34. People are secretive when they have secrets.
35. The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
36. This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
37. You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
38. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
39. A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities
40. If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
41. Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.
42. We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.
43. Don’t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?
44. As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
45. It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.
46. All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
47. All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
48. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
49. There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves
50. What you didn’t tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did
51. He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.
52. The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
53. There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
54. I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.
55. There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person’s heart.
56. She thought of Aziza’s stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
57. But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
58. And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,’ he added thoughtfully. ‘We’ll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher…. Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don’t we?
59. Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden – in all the places.
60. That’s the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.
