1,170 Quotes About Secrets

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.

No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and everything crumbles. That’s why it remains intact and incorruptible in time, waiting for its ultimate destiny to be revealed.

Talking to someone... is easy... lower your voice... speak loudly...

We all have secrets we never dare to spill to anyone.

I cannot speak of the things I have seen, nor seek the comfort for the pain I feel. If I did, this nation would descend into a deeper kind of madness, or think of it's president mad. The truth, I am afraid, must live as paper and ink. Hidden and forgotten until every man named here has passed to dust.

It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.