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Below are sayings about confidentiality, keeping silent, concealing information, and quotes about secrets that will show how people usually trust others by telling them everything – even those which should be kept private.
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93+ Revealing Quotes About Secrets
1. “Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.” – Kaede Lazares
2. “The best secrets are the most twisted.” – Sara Shepard
3. “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” – Paul Tournier
4. “Secrets are made to be found out with time.” – Charles Sanford
5. “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” – Gloria Stuart
6. “People are secretive when they have secrets.” – Deb Caletti
7. “Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.” – Orson Scott Card
8. “Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.” – Liane Moriarty
9. “The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.” – Dick Van Dyke
10. “Some secrets are better left at that as secrets.” – Candace Bushnell
11. “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin
12. “I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.” – Nicholas Sparks
13. “A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.” – Brian Herbert
14. “Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.” – Elbert Hubbard
15. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” – André Malraux
16. “Keeping secrets is the equivalent to lying in my eyes.” – Anonymous
17. “The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.” – George Bernard Shaw
18. “Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets.” – Dan Howell
19. “A real secret is something which only one person knows.” – Idries Shah
20. “I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.” – Nicholas Sparks
21. “Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.” – S.R. Ford
22. “There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.” – Alexandre Dumas
23. “Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.” – Michelle Hodkin
24. “We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.” – Jean De La Bruyere
25. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
26. “The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.” – Margaret Atwood
27. “It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.” – Kiera Cass
28. “You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.” – Alice Munro
29. “A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30. “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.” – Henry Green
31. “I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.” – Anne Rice
32. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” – George Orwell
33. “Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who’s in them.” – Lionel Shriver
34. “Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth.” – Anne Rice
35. “The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
36. “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw
37. “All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.” – Robin Sloan
38. “It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.” – Andrew Solomon
39. “A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.” – James Howell
40. “To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.” – Samuel Johnson
41. “A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.” – Fausto Cercignani
42. “Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.” – Delphine de Vigan
43. “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
44. “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.” – Kim Edwards
45. “There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person’s heart.” – Haruki Murakami
46. “Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.” – Elizabeth I
47. “All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.” – Cory Doctorow
48. “I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.” – Audrey Niffenegger
49. “Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there’s a secret.” – Jean Ferris
50. “The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can’t.” – Mira Kirshenbaum
51. “Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.” – Laura Esquivel
52. “The secret we should never let the game masters know is that they don’t need any rules.” – Gary Gygax
53. “The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.” – Lisa Unger
54. “Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.” – Mason Cooley
55. “A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.” – Jean De La Bruyere
56. “A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.” – Lauren Oliver
57. “A girl who is okay with keeping secrets from her significant other is not wifey material.” – Anonymous
58. “Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.” – Daniel C. Gelman
59. “There are some secrets that we think we’re keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.” – Frank Warren
60. “There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.” – Frank Warren
61. “There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about.” – Charles Durning
62. “Don’t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?” – Leila Sales
63. “The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.” – Edgar Watson Howe
64. “Keeping secrets from friends is dumb because they will eventually find out and consequences won’t be good.” – Anonymous
65. “Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.” – Jim Crace
66. “Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.” – Andrei Codrescu
67. “A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities.” – Jeremy Aldana
68. “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” – Anais Nin
69. “If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
70. “With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” – Sara Gruen
71. “Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.” – Gregory David Roberts
72. “There are some secrets we keep because we can’t bear to let them out and some because it’s better to keep them in.” – Ally Carter
73. “The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.” – Denis Waitley
74. “For every secret hangs in greater fear between the speaker’s mouth and hearer’s ear than any peril between cup and lip.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
75. “I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.” – Ally Carter
76. “Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” – Cassandra Clare
77. “Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.” – Criss Jami
78. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – C.G. Jung
79. “Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.” – China Miéville
80. “Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.” – James Joyce
81. “Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.” – E.L. Konigsburg
82. “When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.” – Oscar Wilde
83. “We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.” – Adriana Trigiani
84. “Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our hearts, intrigue our minds, and embrace our very souls.” – Imania Margria
85. “True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
86. “Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.” – Fiona Apple
87. “The secret of concentration is the secret of self discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.” – Arnold Palmer
88. “She thought of Aziza’s stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.” – Khaled Hosseini
89. “It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.” – Nancy Werlin
90. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.” – Erin Morgenstern