When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted on coating of lies. It becomes your shield…and your prison. —Selena Kitt in Grace More about this quote Tags: fear world prison retiring hiding shield Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: man angels hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs. —Myrtle Reed More about this quote Tags: happiness depth secret hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. —Raymond Chandler More about this quote Tags: hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: purity hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become. —Amber Lynn Natusch in Undertow More about this quote Tags: learning past pride growth hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is hiding in the world and our task is to let the divine emerge from our deeds. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: God hiding deeds works Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say. —Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine More about this quote Tags: emotions fear hiding fine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: power protection hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email