#secret

I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences. ↗

— Yvonne Woon

#secrets #beauty

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#ocean #sea #security #the-secret-sharer #beauty

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#care #honesty #love #moral #morality

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. ↗

— Howard Barker

#because #enlighten #me #secret #secrets

When I get married, it'll be no secret. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#get #get married #i #married #secret

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... ↗

— John Geddes

#impermanence #secret #temporary #beauty

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play. ↗

— Jay Asher

#future #play #rewind #secret #stop

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. ↗

— Elihu Root

#get #lincoln #men #ought #out

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#disappointment #failure #holes #learning #loss