“Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them.”
The Sandman
Context: Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
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“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”
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"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"
“The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“Each person has a literature inside them.”
Anna Deavere Smith (1950) American actress, playwright and professor
“What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 145
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O que há de mais reles nos sonhos é que todos os têm.
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: The shaman is not a priest, the shaman has no secret knowledge, he is equivalent to the hunter. He has a specific skill that is subjugated to the needs of the group. He is prepared to take drugs, go loopy, visit the underworld, bring back knowledge and tell everybody. He’s not keeping a secret knowledge. Originally priests were instructors, they passed out the mysteries and revelations to the masses. Increasingly, they say ‘you don’t need to have a religious experience, we are having that for you. That’s what we are here for.” Eventually, they start saying ‘you don’t need to have a religious experience, and neither do we. We’ve got this book about some people who – a thousand years ago – had a religious experience. And if you come in on Sunday, we’ll read you a bit of that and you’ll be sorted, don’t you worry.” Effectively a portcullis has slammed down between the individual and their godhead. ‘You can’t approach your godhead except through us now. We are the only path. Our church is the only path.’ But that is every human being’s birthright, to have ingress to their godhead.