Quotes about secretion
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“I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry… I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.”

Stephen Fry book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Secret

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Secret, Imagination

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author

Source: Estrin, James, Diane Arbus, 1923-1971, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-diane-arbus.html, 6 November 2018, The New York Times, 8 March 2018]

Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN 0-375-50620-9.

Ault, Alicia, A Window into the World of Diane Arbus: Photographs from the portfolio, "A box of 10," reveal photographer's secrets, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/, 13 November 2018, Smithsonian, 24 April 2018

Secret

“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Grace

Life, Secret, Thinking, Memory

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

Roberto Bolaño book Last Evenings on Earth

Dentist
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

Life, Lie, Secret, Art

“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Secret, Art, Light

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Secret

“I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

Love, Life, Secret, Way

“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Secret, Learning

“Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

People, Secret, Happiness

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

Secret, Time, Night

“That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.”

Melvin Burgess (1954) British children's writer

Source: Smack

Secret

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Secret

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Context: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

Secret, Happiness

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

People, Secret, World, Imagination

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Secret

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”

Josephine Tey (1896–1952) Scottish author, mystery writer

Source: To Love and Be Wise

Life, Secret, Success

“The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret

“It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Secret, Light, Water, Wine

“Okay…' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Screaming Staircase

Source: The Screaming Staircase

Secret, Behavior, Girl

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”

Henry Ford book My Life and Work

My Life and Work (1922)

Success, Secret, Success, Personality

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Secret

“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen

God, Secret, Way, Lovers

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

Women, Men, Secret, Angels

“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret

“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Truth, Secret, World, Dreams

“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Secret, Thinking

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Secret

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

The Joy of Children (1966)

Motivational, Secret, Joy

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variant: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Secret, Guy, Intelligence

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 6.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Secret

“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Secret

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

Secret, Housing

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”

China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown

Secret, Fight

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Secret, Learning

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Secret, Question

“Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her… he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

Secret, Smile, Soul, Freedom

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

Source: Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995

Truth, Secret

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Secret, Success, Personality, Happiness

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Secret, Way

“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."

"You are."

"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Secret, Girl

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

People, Secret, Sadness

“The secret of high finance… if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.”

Joanne Fluke (1943) writer

Source: Peach Cobbler Murder

Money, Secret

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Secret

“Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Secret

“Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

Secret, Dogs, Dreams

“Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Secret, Dead

“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.

We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.

It is laughter.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Secret, World, Fear, Laughter

“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Secret

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

Secret, World

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905) Ch. 2 : The First Dream
1900s
Source: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Context: He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Secret

“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Secret, Books

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”

Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Secret, Books

“Please!’
That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice.
‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Secret, Justice, Sense, Memory

“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love, Hate, Secret

“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Secret, Sea

“Resistance is the secret of joy!”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Secret, Joy

“Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Secret, Girl, Boy, Dead

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Wise, Life, Secret, Time

“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Life, Women, Men, Secret

“Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret

“Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Secret, Dogs, Intelligence, Time

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Beauty, Happy, Peaceful, Secret

“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret, Heart

“I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Secret, Learning

“there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.”

Spider Robinson book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Secret, Heart

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

Life, Death, Secret, World

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Aloha from Hell

Secret, Moms

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Secret

“The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret. mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.”

Liz Kessler book The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Source: The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Secret

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Love, Secret

“There is
By my leaning over the precipice
Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion
My finding the secret
Of loving you
Always for the first time”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Love, Secret, Time

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Roald Dahl book The Minpins

The Minpins (1991)

Secret, World

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Secret

“I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Secret, Fools

“Secrets… are the very root of cool.”

William Gibson book Spook Country

Source: Spook Country

Secret

“The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Life, Secret

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. III, Ch. IV (1839). <br class="br">Variant: Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. <br class="br">Context: "Ah! this beautiful world!" said Flemming, with a smile. "Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and Heaven itself lies not far off. And then it changes suddenly; and is dark and sorrowful, and clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

Deep, Depressing, Happy, Heartbreaking