Quotes About Secrets

Unlock the wisdom concealed in secrecy with our Quotes About Secrets. Delve into a captivating collection that explores the hidden realms of human experience, offering insights, reflections, and revelations. From profound mysteries to everyday confidences, discover the power, intrigue, and complexities of secrets through a curated selection of quotes that illuminate the diverse facets of this universal human phenomenon.

Quotes About Secrets And Lies

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.

The problem is I’ve too many secrets and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with your own lies.

There are some secrets that we think we’re keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us. – Frank Warren

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves. – Frank Warren

Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man and then killed him again.

Did it hurt when your own soul ate you alive? It will hurt more when your secrets come to gnaw at your marrow.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about. – Charles Durning

Don’t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you? – Leila Sales

It’s harder to kill a phantom than a reality. – Virginia Woolf

The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever. – Unknown

Keeping secrets from friends is dumb because they will eventually find out and consequences won’t be good. – Anonymous

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming. – Jim Crace

Lies and secrets, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind. – Cassandra Clare

The thing about lying is, it never goes away. It sticks with you like a hidden disease, eating away at you from the inside. – Jodi Picoult

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning. – Andrei Codrescu

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities. – Jeremy Aldana

Secrets and lies kill relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught. – Unknown

Truth is the foundation of all human virtue. – Cicero

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. – Anais Nin

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. – Arthur Schopenhauer

There are few people who can handle the truth. Be one of them. – Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. – Sara Gruen

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved. – Gregory David Roberts

Lying is like a snowball. It gets bigger and bigger the more you roll it. – Tali Sharot

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. – Flannery O’Connor A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. – Unknown

There are some secrets we keep because we can’t bear to let them out and some because it’s better to keep them in. – Ally Carter

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others. – Denis Waitley

Fear and lies always go hand in hand. – Unknown

A lie is like a fish on a hook, it can be felt, but it can’t be seen. – Unknown

For every secret hangs in greater fear between the speaker’s mouth and hearer’s ear than any peril between cup and lip. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out. – Ally Carter

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM QUOTES

The truth hurts for a little while, but a lie hurts forever. – Anonymous

The truth is that we all are dishonest at times. But lies are like quicksand, the more you try to get out, the deeper you sink. – Oprah Winfrey

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. – Erin Morgenstern

The lies we tell ourselves are the ones that hurt the most. – Unknown

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without that we cannot build anything meaningful. – Zig Ziglar

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

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand. – Nancy Werlin

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. – Ayn Rand

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. – Michael Bassey Johnson

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them. – Fiona Apple

The secret of concentration is the secret of self discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. – Arnold Palmer

Lies are like scars and the more you tell them, the more they build up, until they become an unbearable weight. – Unknown

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be truthful. – Edward R. Murrow

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge. – Adriana Trigiani

Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our hearts, intrigue our minds, and embrace our very souls. – Imania Margria

The biggest lies are often the ones we tell ourselves. – Unknown

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. – E.L. Konigsburg

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. – Oscar Wilde

Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – C.G. Jung

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. – China Miéville

Lying is an integral part of human nature. It’s how we survive. – Unknown

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind. – Cassandra Clare

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. – Criss Jami

Quotes About Secrets And Trust

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic. – Kaede Lazares

The best secrets are the most twisted. – Sara Shepard

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

Secrets are made to be found out with time. – Charles Sanford

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. – Gloria Stuart

People are secretive when they have secrets. – Deb Caletti

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom. – Orson Scott Card

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. – Liane Moriarty

The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving. – Dick Van Dyke

Some secrets are better left at that as secrets. – Candace Bushnell

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

I’d learned that some things are best kept secret. – Nicholas Sparks

A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret. – Brian Herbert

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. – Elbert Hubbard

Keeping secrets is the equivalent to lying in my eyes. – Anonymous

Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets. – Dan Howell

A real secret is something which only one person knows. – Idries Shah

I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets. – Nicholas Sparks

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble. – S.R. Ford

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. – Alexandre Dumas

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger. – Michelle Hodkin

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us. – Jean De La Bruyere

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one. – Margaret Atwood

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets. – Kiera Cass

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. – Alice Munro

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in. – Henry Green

I never lie, I said offhand.At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who’s in them. – Lionel Shriver

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth. – Anne Rice

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. – Roald Dahl

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. – George Bernard Shaw

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. – Robin Sloan

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. – Andrew Solomon

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. – James Howell

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

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. – Kim Edwards

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person’s heart. – Haruki Murakami

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. – Elizabeth I

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets. – Cory Doctorow

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. – Audrey Niffenegger

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there’s a secret. – Jean Ferris

The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can’t. – Mira Kirshenbaum

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. – Laura Esquivel

The secret we should never let the game masters know is that they don’t need any rules. – Gary Gygax

The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. – Lisa Unger

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated. – Mason Cooley

A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. – Jean De La Bruyere

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. – Lauren Oliver

Quotes About Secrets And Friends

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets.

Don’t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

The best secrets are the most twisted.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

What you didn’t tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Famous Quotes About Secrets

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. – George Orwell

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. – André Malraux

A secret at home is like rocks under tide. – Dinah Craik

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. – George Bernard Shaw

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. – James Joyce

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one. – William Penn

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. – Jean de La Bruyère

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. – Edgar Watson Howe

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. – Robert Frost

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. – Sophocles

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it. – Fausto Cercignani

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. – François de La Rochefoucauld

Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth. – Buddha

To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly. – William Scott Downey

A secret is a kind of promise … It can also be a prison. – Jennifer Lee Carrell

A secret is powerful when it is empty. – Umberto Eco

Now you’re looking for the secret… but you wont find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.

The second act is called The Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know.

He had come here with the intention of embarrassing a snide assassin, and had instead found a young woman pouring her secrets into a pianoforte.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

His Grace has been a secret since he was a child, Kat. His mother knew he’d only be used as a tool, if the truth came out.

I’m sure I was a huge disappointment. I’m not pretty or smart or athletic. I’m just like them – an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies.

Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. – Sigmund Freud

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. – Gloria Stuart

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. – Diane Ackerman

My secrets must be poetic to be believable. – Mick Jagger

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

Secrets are made to be found out with time. – Charles S. Sanford, Jr.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one. – Margaret Atwood

A girl who is okay with keeping secrets from her significant other is not wifey material. – Anonymous

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. – Daniel C. Gelman

Funny Quotes About Secrets

I’m not good at keeping secrets, unless it’s my age.

My best secret-keeping skill? Forgetting what I was supposed to keep a secret about!

The best way to keep a secret? Tell everyone, but swear them to secrecy.

I wouldn’t trust me with a secret. I have a face that says, ‘Tell me everything!

The biggest secret I’ve ever kept is how I manage to lose so many socks in the laundry.

Why be a secret agent when you can just be a terrible gossip?

I’m so bad at keeping secrets, it’s like playing hide and seek with words.

I’m great at keeping secrets. It’s just that after two minutes, I need someone to tell.

If you want your secret to be safe, tell it to me. I promise to forget it within seconds.

I’m like the Bermuda Triangle for secrets. They disappear within my brain.

Half of my secrets are just me forgetting to mention something important.

You can trust me with a secret…until I see someone who’s good at keeping secrets.

My secret-keeping skills are so good, I’ve even kept secrets from myself.

If you want me to keep a secret, write it down and lock it in a drawer…with a chocolate bar.

I’m great at keeping secrets…until someone offers me chocolate and promises not to tell.

I’m the keeper of secrets…until someone tickles me. Then all bets are off.

I may not be good at keeping secrets, but I excel at forgetting I was told a secret.

I could be a secret agent, as long as the mission involves telling everyone everything.

The funniest thing about secrets is how quickly they become public knowledge around me.

They say a secret is safe with me. I say it’s safer if we all just know about it.

Want a secret to stay secret? Tell it to a dog. They won’t tell, but they’ll judge you silently.

I’m like a broken pencil when it comes to secrets. They just can’t stay sharp around me.

The best secrets are the ones shared with a friend…who has already told everyone else.

Secrets are like potato chips, you can’t just have one. You end up with a whole bag of them.

The hardest secrets to keep are the ones involving cookies. They just disappear too fast.

If you want to keep a secret from me, just put it in a fortune cookie. I won’t read the fortune.

I’m known for being a vault when it comes to secrets. Like, a rusty, leaky vault.

There’s a fine line between keeping a secret and wanting to shout it from the rooftops…I usually cross that line pretty quickly.

Can’t keep a secret? Join me, we can start a club called ‘Why Did We Even Try to Keep Secrets?

I’m not the best secret-keeper, but I’m great at pretending I didn’t hear anything.