Quotes about secrets

Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.

Absence and presence have very primal effects upon us. Too much presence suffocates; a degree of absence spurs our interest. We are marked by the continual desire to possess what we do not have—the object projected by our fantasies. Learn to create some mystery around you, to use strategic absence to make people desire your return, to want to possess you. Dangle in front of others what they are missing most in life, what they are forbidden to have, and they will go crazy with desire. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Overcome this weakness in yourself by embracing your circumstances, your fate.

It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.

Is a secret still a secret if everyone knows it?

Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they represent.

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

The world would be a sad place without mysteries.

Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.

There's always another secret.

Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he never can tell.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.