1,170 Quotes About Secrets

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

Your power is secret, and in secret it is total. But to use your power you must touch the world. To touch you must be touched, to be touched is to be seen, to be seen is to be known. To be known is to perish. Act subtly, lest you diminish.

There are no secrets here. Everybody knows everything about everybody. Or they would like to think they do. Secrets have to be well guarded, and the price is high.

secrets have the power to break the world into two

When I saw myself in front of the mirror without a mask, I feel like crying with forbidding melancholy and embarrassment, knowing what secrets, hurts, and longings lurk behind my soul.— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Confession of a Surrealist

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.

You are the master over someone who has told you his story.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.