Quotes about secretion page 7

“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Life, Secret, Laughter

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”

J.M. Coetzee (1940) South African writer

Secret, Happiness

“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Secret, Feeling, Silence, Waiting

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Women, Men, Secret

“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

“I think… the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes… Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for whatmake you happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Life, Secret, Thinking, Waiting

“We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”

Salman Rushdie book The Moor's Last Sigh

Source: The Moor's Last Sigh

“I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Secret, World

“Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

“She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

Secret, World, Intelligence, Understanding

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

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

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Secret, Learning

“Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back… Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Secret, Personality

“Secrets tear you apart.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Secret, Tear

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

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

Secret, World

“But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Secret, Thinking

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Lie, Secret, Lying

“There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

Friendship, Secret

“Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music…”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Secret, Music, Hell

“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”

Jonathan Carroll book White Apples

Source: White Apples

Love, Secret

“Secret to what?"
"Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Secret, Silence, Dead

“A place to keep all your secrets”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

Women, Secret, Lovers

“I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not dotraps.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Children, Secret, Smile, Memory

“Laila: Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Secret, Tree

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Pain, Secret

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret… but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”

Christopher Priest book The Prestige

Source: The Prestige

Secret, Fools

“… the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all…”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Stunning

“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Wisdom, Secret

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: Minority Report

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Pain, People, Secret, World

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, Secret

“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Love, Life, Secret, Suffering

“And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

“Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret…. if he would just let me inside so i can help”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Secret, Help

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

People, Secret, Dependency

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

“No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.”

Juan Rulfo book Pedro Páramo

Source: Pedro Páramo

Secret, Time

“The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

Secret, Failure, Success

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Stephen King in introduction.
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)

Death, Secret

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Secret, Cats, Idea

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

Frank Herbert book Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

Secret, Way, Thinking

“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Life, Secret, Learning

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

“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 book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Life, Secret, Time

“What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory)
Dirty underwear. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

Secret, Water, Happiness

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71

Secret, Happiness

“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Lie, Secret, Lying

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Funny, Birthday, Lie, Secret

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love seesthem to the secret inside.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: Salt of the Air

Love, Secret

“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind youto keep in, and the kind you don'tto let out.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

Happy, Life, Cute, Life

“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”

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

Secret, Education

“The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.”

Gary Gygax (1938–2008) American writer and game designer

“The secret is that there is no secret.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Motivational, Deep, Success, Happy

“Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Secret, World

“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Stunning

“Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Children, Truth, Secret, Imagination

“Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

Secret, Love

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Secret, Music, Silence, Night

“Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Children, Secret, Literature, Thinking

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”

Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary

Secret, Heart

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

Life, Secret, Imagination

“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Life, Secret

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Children, Secret

“So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

Truth, Secret

“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)

Source: The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Secret, Beauty, Way

“The Secret: Law of Attraction”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Secret, Law

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Secret, World, Forgetting, Happiness

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Secret, Soul

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret, Time, Help, Heart

“Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.”

Allan Sherman (1924–1973) American comedian

“Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Secret, Mountain

“There's always another secret.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Kelsier, at various points during the novel
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

Agatha Christie book Peril at End House

Source: Peril at End House

Secret, Evil

“He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets.”
“Yeah,” Jace said, “he‘s terrified I‘ll tell everyone that he‘s always really wanted to be a ballerina.”
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.
Source: City of Ashes