Quotes about Secrets
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
— Ben Carson
Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
— Oprah Winfrey
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
— Henry David Thoreau
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
— Khalil Gibran
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
— Khalil Gibran
When we dare to lift our cat and let our friends know what is in it, they will be encouraged to lift their cups and share with us their own anxiously hidden secrets. The greatest healing often takes place when we no longer feel isolated by our shame and guilt and discovered that others often feel what we feel and think what we think and have the fears, apprehensions, and preoccupations we have.
— Henri Nouwen
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.
— Viv Albertine
Finite intelligence needs many words in order to express ideas; but God speaks once and for all within Himself—one single Word which reaches the abyss of all things that are known and can be known. In that Word of God are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, all the secrets of sciences, all the designs of the arts, all the knowledge of mankind. But this knowledge, compared to the Word, is only the feeblest broken syllable.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
— George Bernard Shaw
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
— Margaret Atwood
Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.
— Margaret Atwood