#secrets

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#self-destructive #imagination

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#fabric #guess #guilt #i #lives

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#good wife #job #me #secrets #steady

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#end #evasion #good #good end #guilt

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us. ↗

— John Sexton

#because #each #every #had #i

In those days secrets were well kept. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#kept #secrets #those #well #were

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#being #family #far #good #narrow

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. ↗

— William Blake

#secrets #william-blake #art

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#art #philosophy #secrets #truth #art

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