Quotes about Secrets
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
— Virginia Woolf
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.
— Lynn Austin
Make no mistake, those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.
— Lysa TerKeurst
those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.
— John Eldredge
Instruct us, Father, gently in the secrets of your love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.
— Thomas a Kempis
This was now revealed to Septimus; the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair.
— Virginia Woolf
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
— Laurence Sterne
As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weather-beaten, ragged old rooks' nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
— Charles Dickens
When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success. When you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour your highest self. When you let go of the secret, only then you live to your greatest potential.
— Oprah Winfrey