Secret Quotes

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

~ Jenny Lynne

Dark alleys, like social networks, are romantic, because you never know what might happen while I perform there every Caturday night. Cats do know, but won't tell. So don’t even ask.

~ Will Advise

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

~ Norman Rockwell

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

~ Alessandra Torre

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also...but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.

~ Toba Beta

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...

~ Paul Hoffman

As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I’ve been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn’t know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.

~ E.r. Wade

I tilt my head slightly to one side, taking in her blue sleeveless dress which ends a few inches above her knees. She looks exquisite. Definitely perfect for dessert.“I know what I want to eat and it’s not lemon cake.” I say thickly.Heat flares up in her eyes and I know the cake has been forgotten.She wants to be dessert.

~ E.r. Wade

God rewards a person not for the deeds he does openly, but according to the thoughts and actions he has in secret.

~ Sunday Adelaja

She told her secret love, not me, i could’nt speak,i smiled.

~ Nibin

Smileshe told about her secret love, not me, i could’nt speak,i smiled.

~ Nibin

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

~ Jodi Picoult

She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoulder, and her eyes grew bright. I knew then how hard it had been to keep, not just from Millbank but from her. I felt that little quickening. It was just as I imagine a woman must feel, when the baby within her gives its first kick. Does it matter if I feel that, that is so small, and silent, and secret?

~ Sarah Waters

Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.

~ Sophie Kinsella

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

~ Christopher Morley

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

~ Cassandra Clare

That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.

~ Winston Graham

Despite her fears she found,The secret to an outstanding life,Is risking the fall,For the possibility of flight.

~ Kyra Jackson

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.“Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?”“Yes!” whispered all the children.“Let’s!

~ Enid Blyton

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

~ Marcia Sirota

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

~ Mark Mirabello

Secret is the mother of all lies.

~ Toba Beta

Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.

~ Caroline George

Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

~ Robin M. King

I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.So which option did you choose, Mr.President?

~ Sambhav Ratnakar

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.

~ Toba Beta

Most people define themselves by this finite body, but you’re not a finite body. Even under amicroscope you’re an energy field. What we know about energy is this: You go to a quantumphysicist and you say, “What creates the world?” And he or she willsay, “Energy.” Well, describe energy. “OK, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it’smoving into form, through form and out of form.” You go to a theologian and ask the question, “What created the Universe?” And he or she willsay, “God.” OK, describe God. “Always was and always has been, never can be created or destroyed, all that ever was, always will be, always moving into form, through form and out of form.” You see, it’s the same description, just different terminology.

~ Rhonda Byrne

Most people define themselves by this finite body, but you’re not a finite body. Even under amicroscope you’re an energy field. What we know about energy is this: You go to a quantumphysicist and you say, “What creates the world?” And he or she willsay, “Energy.” Well, describe energy. “OK, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it’smoving into form, through form and out of form.” You go to a theologian and ask the question, “What created theUniverse?” And he or she willsay, “God.” OK, describe God. “Always was and always has been, never can be created or destroyed, all that ever was, always will be, always moving into form, through form and out of form.”You see, it’s the same description, just different terminology.

~ Rhonda Byrnes

The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.

~ Jennifer Paynter

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

~ Craig Groeschel

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

~ Toba Beta

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

~ Steven Magee

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment, and time for a long succession of small mutations.

~ Carl Sagan

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

~ Vera Nazarian

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

~ Alexandre Dumas