204 Quotes About Hiding

To see the world as it is, hide yourself from the world, because when you show yourself to the world, the world will behave differently! And do the same thing to know the people as they are!

Quit hiding your magic. The world is ready for you.

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

She wasn’t soft or pretty; she was hard-edged and cold, like one of those cold bronze statues surrounded by high fences and crowned in razor wire. Don’t touch me, such defenses said, but it wasn’t enough to halt a breach, no. She had thought people only picked the soft-petaled, sweet-smelling flowers, but some people took thorns as a challenge.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.