Quotes about secretion
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“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
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
Source: Grace
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
Source: Smack
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.
“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
Source: To Love and Be Wise
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”
“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 6.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Nothing weighs more than a secret.
“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”
“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”
Source: Dear John
Source: Scandal in Spring
“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
Source: Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: Peach Cobbler Murder
“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”
Source: Delta of Venus
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.”
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.
“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
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.
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Source: Aloha from Hell
Source: The Tail of Emily Windsnap
Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. III, Ch. IV (1839).
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.
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."
“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”
“stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!”
Source: Angels & Demons