SECRETS QUOTES VI

quotations about secrets

He that publisheth his friend's secrets, doth publish his own shame.

THOMAS WATSON

attributed, Holy Thoughts on Holy Things


Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

PAUL TOURNIER

attributed, 1000 Pocket Positives: Inspiring Quotations

Tags: Paul Tournier


A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

DINAH CRAIK

Magnus and Morna

Tags: Dinah Craik


Everyone in town important enough to have secrets worth keeping knows that secrets are not safe.

FRED BARBASH

"Trump lawyers spill beans, thanks to terrible choice of restaurant -- next door to the New York Times", Washington Post, September 18, 2017


Secrets ... are the very root of cool.

WILLIAM GIBSON

Spook Country

Tags: William Gibson


Our secrets are what keep us sick and as soon as we are able to expose them to another person, that is when the healing begins.

PHILLIP L. SMITH

"For a band of 'brothers,' family and community are at the core of recovery", Watertown Daily Times, September 17, 2017


To know how to keep a secret is the greatest of all secrets.

TUPAC AMARU

attributed, Day's Collacon


Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Fables


The only secret that has ever been kept is -- well, that is a secret.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


Secrets are insidious and can be a dangerous slippery slope that starts with a small detail you leave out when talking about your day, to a white lie about how much you really spent at the store. Over time, it becomes a habit, and like any habit, the lie grows bigger and wider until you feel like your life is out of control!

MARGOT BROWN

"Money, Sex, & Secrets: Keep Them from Ending Your Relationship", PsychCentral, August 26, 2017


Secret heart
Why so mysterious?
Why so sacred, why so serious?
Maybe you're just acting tough
Maybe you're just not man enough
What's wrong?
Let her in on your secret, heart

RON SEXSMITH

"Secret Heart"


Sharing a secret is a sure-fire aphrodisiac.

JIM SHELLEY

"R.I.P. Roxy and Ronnie", Daily Mail, January 20, 2017


The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

BIBLE

Deuteronomy 29:29

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Selected Poems

Tags: Rainer Maria Rilke


Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn.

KADIR MUNSHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

SENECA

Oedipus

Tags: Seneca


Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

JEAN FERRIS

Once Upon a Marigold


If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères

Tags: Jean de La Bruyère


All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

CECELIA AHERN

The Book of Tomorrow


If we can find the best ways to face the secrets we keep from ourselves, I think the act of sharing them can be transformative. It can change who we are.

FRANK WARREN

"Frank Warren aims to share interesting secrets, celebrate people's stories at PostSecret Live event", Central Michigan Life, September 11, 2017