102 Secret Quotes Unveiled

In the realm of wisdom and introspection, secrets often hold a unique allure, capturing our imagination and sparking curiosity. As we navigate life’s complexities, a profound quote can sometimes illuminate the path ahead and offer a fresh perspective. For avid seekers of hidden wisdom, we present a specially curated collection of the top 102 secret quotes recently unveiled. These words, plucked from the minds of thinkers, dreamers, and luminaries, promise to inspire, provoke thought, and perhaps even unlock some mysteries of your own journey. Dive in and let these secret quotes guide you through the labyrinth of life's enigmas.

1. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” - Oscar Wilde

2. “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. “I would prefer not to.” - Herman Melville

4. “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

5. “there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep, doyou?” - Charles Bukowski

6. “Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.” - P.D. James

7. “The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.” - Orson Scott Card

8. “Uncertainty is one of government recipes.” - Toba Beta

9. “Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.” - Vera Nazarian

10. “You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.” - Deb Caletti

11. “A secret makes a woman woman” - Gosho Aoyama

12. “Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.” - Lauren Myracle

13. “But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?” - Pseudonymous Bosch

14. “It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

15. “Kira: L, do you knowGods of deathlove apples?L: Damn you, Kira...” - Tsugumi Ohba

16. “Secrets tear you apart.” - Mitch Albom

17. “Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.” - Craig Ferguson

18. “Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet about us,half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

19. “Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.” - Gregory Maguire

20. “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” - Karl Lagerfeld

21. “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

22. “An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.” - Toba Beta

23. “It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is somewhat of a putdown.Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.If you are a secret dreamer, it’s your time to announce yourself.” - Vera Nazarian

24. “Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.” - Toba Beta

25. “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier” - Brandon Sanderson

26. “When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.” - Mark Mirabello

27. “You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.” - Jay Asher

28. “Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.” - Toba Beta

29. “Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

30. “If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

31. “Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

32. “The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

33. “No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

34. “If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

35. “Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

36. “The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.” - Toba Beta

37. “Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.” - Toba Beta

38. “Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.” - Toba Beta

39. “Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.” - Toba Beta

40. “Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.” - Mary Balogh

41. “The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.” - Toba Beta

42. “Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.” - Toba Beta

43. “I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.” - Michael Beckwith

44. “Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.” - Winston S. Churchill

45. “Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli” - Budha

46. “Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.” - Toba Beta

47. “Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.” - Louisa May Alcott

48. “If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.” - Federico Chini

49. “I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

50. “Mutually assured destruction.” - Holly Black

51. “The secret of happiness is something to do” - John Burroughs

52. “He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).” - Ann Voskamp

53. “I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung my out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. What ever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'Ere this speech ended, I became sensible of Heathcliff's presence. Having noticed a slight movement, I turned my head, and saw him rise from the bench, and steal out noiselessly. He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.” - Emily Brontë

54. “Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.” - Irving Kirsch

55. “You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.” - Terence McKenna

56. “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.” - Anne Rice

57. “Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.” - Bram Stoker

58. “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

59. “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” - William Goldman

60. “Tu reviendras me dire adieu, et je te ferai cadeau d'un secret.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

61. “I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.” - Rebecca Donovan

62. “But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” - Hilary Mantel

63. “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.” - Bernie Mcgill

64. “For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

65. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

66. “It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.” - Dana Candler

67. “Între eroare și prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire și chiar o complicitate secretă pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înlăture.” - Jean-Claude Carrière

68. “You don't look very happy."Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all."He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever.” - Scott Westerfeld

69. “I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.” - Kristin Cashore

70. “The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.” - Enid Blyton

71. “Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslaptį ir kamuojasi dėl jos taip niekada ir nepriartėdami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.” - Christopher Priest

72. “King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.” - Kristin Cashore

73. “If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.” - Linda Pohl

74. “Todo buen matrimonio es un territorio secreto, un espacio necesariamente en blanco en el mapa de la sociedad. Lo que los demás no saben de él es lo que lo hace tuyo.” - Stephen King

75. “I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.” - Jessica Sorensen

76. “Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn"t. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to." Takumi” - John Green

77. “He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.” - H.W. Charles

79. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.” - Heather Anastasiu

91. “I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.” - Jennifer Paynter

92. “I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!" "Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

93. “If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.” - Napoleon Hill

94. “Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life. Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill.” - Judy Byington

95. “In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make the person one of them...thus gaining powerIf abusers hold all the power, becoming one of them can, for some, be the only means of survival. However, this doesn't always work, instead survivors often find ways of regaining their own power and fighting back.” - Laurie Matthew

96. “Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt othersRitual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.” - Laurie Matthew

97. “In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” - Laurie Matthew

98. “Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.” - Brandon Sanderson

99. “Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.” - Anton Chehov

100. “I'm not trying to avoid you,' I replied lamely, but what else could I say? Sorry Brae but when I first came down to meet you I had no idea how hard it was going to be to avoid telling you that I was turning into a grotesque monster and I am worried that there is a good chance I could wake up one morning with a sudden lust for your blood. Somehow I didn't think that would go down particularly well.” - Heather James

101. “There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.” - Dillon Burroughs

102. “There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.” - Steve V. Cypert