Many people are keeping secrets from each other, and there are deep reasons behind them. Keeping secrets is a double-edged sword. It could protect or hurt a person. Whatever your reason for doing so, you should accept the consequences accompanied by them. May these keeping secrets quotes give you insight that will help you understand more about the matter.
1. “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
2. “Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.” – Queen Elizabeth I
3. “There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” – Jean Racine
4. “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5. “I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.” – Nicholas Sparks
6. “The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.” – Chanakya
7. “Lies and secrets, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” – Cassandra Clare
8. “Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain
9. “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” – Sophie Kinsella
10. “Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind nooks, in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.” – Sukanya Venkatraghavan
12. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” – André Malraux
13. “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.” – E. W. Howe
14. “I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.” – Steven Yeun
15. “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
16. “With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” – Sara Gruen
17. “If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?” – Graham Moore
18. “Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.” – Johann Kaspar Lavater
19. “There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.” – Charles Durning
20. “Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.” – Michelle Hodkin
21. “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
22. “Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.” – Liane Moriarty
23. “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
24. “How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
25. “The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.” – Margaret Atwood
26. “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
27. “People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.” – Charles McCarry
28. “It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.” – Kiera Cass
29. “What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.” – André Breton
30. “Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.” – Nicolas Chamfort
More Quotes about Secrets
31. “All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.” – Robin Sloan
32. “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw
33. “Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.” – Jean de La Fontaine
34. “I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.” – Joe Hill
35. “Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.” – Don DeLillo
36. “There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.” – Alexandre Dumas
37. “What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.” – Anonymous
38. “Some secrets are meant to be known and once known, you can never forget them.” – Pseudonymous Bosch
39. “The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.” – Samuel Johnson
40. “The best secrets are the most twisted.” – Sara Shepard
41. “But some secrets are too delicious not to share.” – Suzanne Collins
42. “After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?” – Halle Berry
43. “We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.” – Nancy Astor
44. “Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden, only ugliness and deformity.” – L.M. Montgomery
45. “The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.” – Cormac McCarthy
46. “Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.” – Stephen King
47. “I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.” – Isabel Allende
48. “Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.” – Jean Ferris
49. “Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.” – Delphine de Vigan
50. “Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.” – Dan Howell
Share these Quotes for Secrets with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. “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
2. “Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.” – Queen Elizabeth I
3. “There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” – Jean Racine
4. “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5. “I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.” – Nicholas Sparks
6. “The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.” – Chanakya
7. “Lies and secrets, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” – Cassandra Clare
8. “Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain
9. “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” – Sophie Kinsella
10. “Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind nooks, in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.” – Sukanya Venkatraghavan
12. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” – André Malraux
13. “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.” – E. W. Howe
14. “I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.” – Steven Yeun
15. “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
16. “With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” – Sara Gruen
17. “If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?” – Graham Moore
18. “Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.” – Johann Kaspar Lavater
19. “There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.” – Charles Durning
20. “Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.” – Michelle Hodkin
21. “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
22. “Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.” – Liane Moriarty
23. “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
24. “How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
25. “The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.” – Margaret Atwood
26. “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
27. “People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.” – Charles McCarry
28. “It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.” – Kiera Cass
29. “What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.” – André Breton
30. “Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.” – Nicolas Chamfort
More Quotes about Secrets
31. “All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.” – Robin Sloan
32. “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw
33. “Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.” – Jean de La Fontaine
34. “I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.” – Joe Hill
35. “Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.” – Don DeLillo
36. “There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.” – Alexandre Dumas
37. “What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.” – Anonymous
38. “Some secrets are meant to be known and once known, you can never forget them.” – Pseudonymous Bosch
39. “The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.” – Samuel Johnson
40. “The best secrets are the most twisted.” – Sara Shepard
41. “But some secrets are too delicious not to share.” – Suzanne Collins
42. “After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?” – Halle Berry
43. “We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.” – Nancy Astor
44. “Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden, only ugliness and deformity.” – L.M. Montgomery
45. “The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.” – Cormac McCarthy
46. “Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.” – Stephen King
47. “I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.” – Isabel Allende
48. “Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.” – Jean Ferris
49. “Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.” – Delphine de Vigan
50. “Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.” – Dan Howell
Share these Quotes for Secrets with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.