Quotes about Concealment
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
— Cicero
Things that are covered don't heal well.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Do you have secret meetings going on in your church? You are in trouble with God!
— Neil Anderson
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
— Victor Hugo
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
— Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
— Victor Hugo
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
— Victor Hugo
Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?
— Carl Sagan