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Secretive Quotes (page 14)

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls. Edna O'Brien
I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Khalil Gibran quote: "Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the..."
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Khalil Gibran
Ayn Rand quote: "The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only..."
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52). Ayn Rand
Robert Fulghum quote: "Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you..."
Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time. Robert Fulghum
Steig Larsson quote: "Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what..."
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are Steig Larsson
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then... Stephen King
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from... Daniel Defoe
December stillness, teach me through your trees. That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down. Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds. In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach... Siegfried Sassoon
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hearmuch; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of ourfriends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as muchas possibly we can; to hearken. Benjamin Franklin
Tom Stoppard quote: "I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on..."
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way. Tom Stoppard
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done! J. R. R. Tolkien
No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up."Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your... Jodi Picoult
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power. Peter S. Beagle
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov

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