Hidden Quotes
1704 quotes by 1201 authors
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
— Albert Einstein
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You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a…
— Cecelia Ahern
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When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and…
— Leonard Cohen
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the…
— Rumi
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...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
— Marianne Wiggins
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Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life,…
— Kristin Cashore
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There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
— Kathy Acker
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He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.…
— George Orwell
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course…
— Daniel Handler
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We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our…
— Pat Conroy
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The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
— Joanne Greenberg
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The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the…
— Dan Brown
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And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect…
— Marcel Proust
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There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes…
— Terry Pratchett
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Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious…
— Steven Erikson
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Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
— Dan Brown
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Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something…
— Haruki Murakami
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Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.
— Patrick Süskind
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