Secrets Quotes

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

~ Winston S. Churchill

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

~ Chelsea Cain

I can’t tell you the things I know,” I repeated. “Why not?” “They aren’t my secrets to tell.

~ Embee

In Lakefield View, everybody has a secret. Behind every smile lies a dark story. Behind every hello is a hidden goodbye.

~ Gavin Hetherington

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

~ David Mitchell

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

~ Courtney Milan

Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.

~ Laura Lam

There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.

~ Haley Fisher

God, she looked like an angel from this angle as she sat in the sunlight that streamed in from a nearby open window. I was hoping with all my heart that what I was about to tell her, wouldn’t make this angel fall.

~ Angela Richardson

You lying sneak.All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us.You don't understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i'll have the evidence to prove that you're not evil

~ Debbie Moon

His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.

~ Kristen Iversen

Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

~ Lori Lesko

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

~ William Thomson

There are some secrets darker than witchcraft. - Aunt Dora

~ April Aasheim

My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing except when I was taking nips from my illicit cocktail. I was constantly constipated, holding everything in — a disorder that had started when I was two years old. It burned when I passed urine, and my migraines were so severe it felt on occasions as if I were going blind.

~ Alice Jamieson

But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as possible. For conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Nobody will keep the things he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. Neither will anyone who has failed to keep a story to himself keep the name of his informant to himself. Every person without exception has someone to whom he confides everything that is confided to himself. Even supposing he puts some guard in his garrulous tongue and is content with a single pair of ears, he will still be the creator of a host of later listeners – such is the way in which what was but a little while before a secret becomes common rumor.

~ Seneca

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

~ Margaret Atwood

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

~ Alethea Kontis

I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.

~ Paloma Beck

There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.

~ Pauline Creeden

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

~ Kate Morton

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

~ Tracy Winegar

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From The Father Tamer in BREATHE IN

~ Eileen Granfors

I guess that’s the way secrets are. They’re only heavy when you’re holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.

~ Cassia Leo

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

~ Danielle Steel

Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

~ Téa Obreht

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...

~ Sue Monk Kidd

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

~ Adam Phillips

What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.

~ Habeeb Akande

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.

~ Tim Kreider

Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are?” By his words you’d think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I’m off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he’d be like, oh no please don’t do that. Inreality, he’d have to kill me.

~ L.h. Cosway

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

~ Christa Wolf

Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers.

~ Laurie Matthew

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

~ Amanda Kelly

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

~ Thomas Boswell

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

~ Lemony Snicket

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

~ Lia Habel