Quotes about Concealment

Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Charles Spurgeon's words: "You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

We hide what we know or feel ourselves to be (which we assume to be unacceptable and unlovable) behind some kind of appearance which we hope will be more pleasing. We hide behind pretty faces which we put on for the benefit of our public. And in time we may even come to forget that we are hiding, and think that our assumed pretty face is what we really look like.

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.