Hidden Quotes

“It was a grand plan, which would have taxed the imperial treasure to its limits to accomplish. It would have needed more men than the mind can encompass, men to map and men to measure, surveyors, census-takers, painters; it would have taken model-makers, potters, builders, and craftsmen. Six hundred professional dreamers would have been needed to reveal the nature of things hidden beneath the roots of trees, and in the deepest mountain caverns, and in the depths of the sea, for the map, to be worth anything, needed to contain both the visible empire and the invisible.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“The things we think we’re hiding from people, we’re only really hiding from ourselves.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“Everyone will know, once and for all, the Lily I've worked so hard to hide.”
― Erin Stewart

“Much as the sweeping canopy of the oak draws its vitality and luster from its roots, majesty draws its power from the hidden things that both feed it and inspire it. Therefore, we would be wise to attend to the hidden things as without them majesty might venture into a forest, but it will never grow one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there is no hope in stopping a glass from overflowing, add more water.”
― Monaristw

“If there is no hope in stopping a glass of from overflowing, add more .”
― Monaristw

“If there is no hope in stopping a glass of [water] from overflowing, add more [water].”
― Monaristw

“The weekend will always be hidden between days.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Miracles are hidden in plain sight because we have too often assumed the miraculous to be plain, and that will certainly cause the loss of sight.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus’ adage “For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“How am I supposed to . . . ? How do we know . . . ? How can we . . . ? There is great power in treating jerks with deference. It gives you the ability to be extremely assertive—to say “No”—in a hidden fashion.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“Men and women who are genius at what they know, understand and do, content to experience the tragedy of going through life as a light placed under a table if you will...a dimmable, hidden, and unknown legend.

The day that special person makes the wisdom decision, to hire another genius skilled to unveil, and strategically hail that cloaked legend...legacy can lay its foundation as a forever cornerstone.”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™

“The day of death is hidden from human kind, only the Maker knows the exit of every man from the earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My eyes do not shine like yours but will you look into my eyes? There’s a world of love hidden inside it and thickest books written about my affections for you.”
― Tshetrim Tharchen, A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars

“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Silence is not always golden. It can be a signal that a bottled anger is about to explode.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The past keeps tomorrow hidden in the future excuses of man.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Then they brought up their ponies, and carried away the pots of gold, and buried them very secretly not far from the track by the river, putting a great many spells over them, just in case they ever had the chance to come back and recover them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Never fear knowledge hidden from you.”
― K. Weikel, Sameness

“No one knows the day nor moment of final breath on earth. This remains hidden from every human being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The painting was a dark line of trees behind rows of gorgeous pink lilies, the sun shining on the grass. Behind the branches, a blackness contrasted against the sunny field. Eerie eyes peered out from behind tree trunks. They were so imperceptible that I almost wouldn't have noticed them had they not been pointed out to me. It struck me as odd, considering the realist nature of the other paintings.
Devin moved, and the gentle scent of his woodsy cologne brushed my nose. He stepped back and motioned to another painting. From this view point, the paintings took on fantastical elements. Wings, ears, eyes, all hidden as though Dubois himself were seeing them only from the corner of his vision.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Faeries

“When the truth is hidden by lies, they shout from underneath, and then it will be clear to you which is true and which is a lie.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Those hidden ideas between your ears could flow 'NEW GENIUS" throughout your year!”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“But this part of me...' Mor wiped at her tears with her free hand. 'It didn't matter as much, when my family disowned me. When they called me a whore and a piece of trash. When they hurt me. Because those things... they weren't part of me. Weren't true, and weren't... intrinsic. They couldn't break me because... because they never touched that innermost part of me. They never even guessed. But I hid it... I've hidden it because...' She tilted back her head, looking skyward. 'Because I live in terror of my family finding out- and shaming me, hurting me about this one thing that has remained wholly mine. This one part of me. I won't let them... won't let them destroy it. Or try to.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Being gay was illegal in the UK until 1982, you could go to jail for it!”
― Steven Magee

“And he said...

...nothing will stay hidden even in the darkness of one's soul.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...when you give up you discover a side to yourself that begs to be left hidden.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Crying is not weak. Tears are there for a reason. To allow us to release the tension and pain we have inside. You have been strong for so long, trying to keep all those tears hidden.”
― Yve Vale, Hexed

“your memory is hidden
in every thing that’s not me

even this lonesome cigarette
and that crooked painting

i hear their laments
and invite them in

who am i to deny
their wretched destiny

we talk of you and sigh
there’s much too sighing

then i close my eyes to dream
of your tender mercies

i didn’t kiss you enough”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Our choices reveal what’s tucked away in our conscience as well as what’s been thrown away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough