quotations about secrets
Secrets are the currency of intimacy.
FRANK WARREN
"Frank Warren aims to share interesting secrets, celebrate people's stories at PostSecret Live event", Central Michigan Life, September 11, 2017
Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.
STEFAN ZWEIG
The Post Office Girl
There's a secret behind the lies you tell
For inside is where the sorrow lies
Cause I'm living like the lonely do
For they've lost someone they love too
And the lonely know my secret they know what I go through
There's a secret behind the smile you see...
GEORGE JONES
"Lonely Know My Secret"
Lies and secrets ... they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Clockwork Prince
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
AYN RAND
Anthem
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHL
The Minpins
Trust not man, not even your best friend, with a secret; you will never find a more faithful guardian of the trust than yourself.
SAADI
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
VERONICA ROTH
Insurgent
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
LEO TOLSTOY
Diary
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
SARA GRUEN
Water for Elephants
Secrecy is the cement of friendship.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Your secret's safe inside me
Closet man
Safe under lock and key
Understand
What you're thinkin' is important
Isn't really so, you'll see
But your secret's absolutely safe with me
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
"Closet Man"
Our secrets are the walls that separate us and the bridges that connect us with others and who we truly are.
FRANK WARREN
"Frank Warren aims to share interesting secrets, celebrate people's stories at PostSecret Live event", Central Michigan Life, September 11, 2017
Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
Everybody's got a secret Sonny,
Something that they just can't face.
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it;
They carry it with them every step that they take.
Till some day they just cut it loose.
Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down
Where no one asks any questions,
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
ROBERT FROST
The Secret Sits
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.
SANDOR MARAI
Embers
I shall know you, secrets
by the litter you have left
and by your bloody footprints.
LOLA RIDGE
"Secrets"
A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.
JENNIFER LEE CARRELL
Interred With Their Bones