Secrets Quotes

I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.

~ Simon Holt

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

~ Candace Bushnell

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

~ Anton Chekhov

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

~ William Gibson

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

~ Jean Ferris

The hell with your secrets,” shouted Bonnie.“Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret alltheir life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer—and I amnot speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. Andthen there is the question of the true identity of Sage—good luck on yourresearch there!One of you has already had their memory erased—and I don’t meanDamon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there isthe question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobodybut Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories aboutCamelot.

~ L.j. Smith

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

~ Clamp

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

~ Delphine De Vigan

We are bound by the secrets we share.

~ Zoë Heller

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is. 

~ Guillaume Musso

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

~ Mira Bartok

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

~ Khaled Hosseini

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

~ Don Delillo

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner, I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly, I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain, I have a secret that I cannot share.

~ Omar Khayyám

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

~ George Orwell

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.

~ Judy Reene Singer

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

~ Donna Jo Napoli

There is very seldom any true secret.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

~ John Barrymore

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

~ Moira J. Moore

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

~ Alice Munro

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

~ Kate Chopin

For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.

~ Emily Thorne

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

~ Sebastian Barry

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

~ Kenneth Grahame

We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

~ Crystal Renn

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

~ James Richardson

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

~ Louisa May Alcott

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

~ Eugene O'neill

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

~ John Updike

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.

~ Stephen White

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

~ Anna Godbersen

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, Because I had to. The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

~ Margaret George

The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.

~ Lionel Suggs

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right? His father laughed but didn't answer.

~ Robert Liparulo

I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell Rachel that I think Damian has the most beautiful hands I've ever seen, that he walks like a cat, that he has the clearest eyes, which seem able to see absolutely everything about me. That he seems to be the loneliest person I've ever met, and it breaks my heart. All of these things feel private. Precious. And I don't want to share them with Rachel. Not yet, anyway.

~ Lisa Ann Sandell