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When my female friends are leftBy horrid spouses and lovers,I commiserate. I send gifts-Powwow songs and poems- and wonderWhy my gorgeous friends cannot findSomeone who knows them as I do.Is the whole world dead and blind?I tell my friends, “I’d marry youTomorrow.” I think I’m engagedTo thirty-six women, my harem:Platonic, bookish, and enraged.I love them! But it would scare them-No, of course, they already knowThat I can be just one more boy,A toy warrior who explodesInto silence and warpaths with joy.
— Sherman Alexie
If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die.
— Miggy Villas
To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn't mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it's difficult, you have what it takes to survive.
— Emma Raveling, Breaker
Being strong is having the wisdom when it is necessary. Being strong is to being gentle when it is most needed. Being strong is using flexibility when it is required. Being strong is about being there when it is a must for you to be there. Being strong is not really about being strong………
— Sameh Elsayed
The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
So much beauty and joy in my life has come from going through something really difficult
— Demi Lovato
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.
— Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman
If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional
No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted
All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.
— James Franco
Build strong foundation under your dreams.
— Kishore Bansal
i am not strong or weak i am exactly what the situation requires(versatile)
— Mohlalefi j motsima
I get knocked down, But I get up again, You’re never going to keep me down
— CHUMBAWUMBA
Those words make a mockery of our battle. Our fight showed me the power of the human will and the possibilities held by the future
— Kayaba Akihiko
Sometimes the strong give birth to the weak. An sometimes the weak grow to be strong
— Moira Young, Raging Star
My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!
— Jaishree Garg
The average gym junkie today is all about appearance, not ability. Flash, not function. These men may have big, artificially pumped up limbs, but all that the size is in the muscle tissue; theirtendons and joints are weak . Ask the average muscleman to do a deep one-leg squat-ass-to-floor-style-and his knee ligaments would probably snap in two. What strength most bodybuilders do have, they cannot use in a coordinated way; if you asked them to walk on their hands they'd fall flat on their faces.
— Paul Wade, Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength
God is strongest when we are weakest.
— Janice Cantore, Visible Threat
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
— r. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?
— Jill Telford, Walk Like a Giant
Everyone falls sometimes, son, even me, but the trick is to get right back up. They’ll always target the ones who appear vulnerable, so you need to be strong. Fake it until you make it.
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre: Redemption
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have left.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Because you see, when you’re a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.And when your life spins out of control, it’s as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.
— Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
When you are ready to travel,everything is straight in your path,but when you planning to travel you will face only hurdles.
— pavankumar nagaraj
The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength.
— Saleem Sharma
Dont be kind person ,because kind people are losers and they think they doing it right. I love riches because they destroy kind people like tank and they built their fortune. believing good or bad is just for weak people because strong people create them own role.
— K ibeyk
He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love... enjoying what you love... and being true to yourself... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well—in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.
— Mikhail Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy
You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.
— Balroop Singh
The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
— Marcus Buckingham, Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong."…"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,and the soft overcomes the hard.Yet no one applies this knowledge.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.
— Habeeb Akande
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
— Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
I'm thankful because I'm still alive. I'm thankful because I lived the mantra, Only The Strong Survive. I'm thankful because I have Chris Ann. And that has made all the difference. And it always will.It always gets better. I told you so...
— Jamie Schoffman, Not All Out of Love
We must stay strong so we can keep going.
— Michelle Shen
The strong survive.
— Ann Aguirre, Enclave
There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken
—  between the love and the man
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
There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
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, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
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 Dostoyevsky
But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?
— Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
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, Reason to Breathe
To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
— Samuel Johnson
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, The Six Rules of Maybe
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
— Terence McKenna
Mutually assured destruction.
— Holly Black, Red Glove
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Smartass Disciple: Master, how do you heal the broken heart?Master of Stupidity: It isn’t a disease need to be healed. It’s life.
— Toba Beta
Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
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, A Secret Affair
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, Little Women
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
— Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.)We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other.
— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.
— John Matthews
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, Bliss
No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.
— Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder
The secret is that there is no secret.
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
dark say:berthenia bellenever forgetthe tongue hid name
— Cathleen Margaret, Berthenia Belle
Everyone has secret.Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame.
— C.W. Gortner, The Tudor Secret
... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...
— Frederick Marryat, The Pirate
God always rewards openly what was done in the secret.
— Sunday Adelaja
Some things were secret even after you told them.
— James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes
In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.
— Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Let living and love, be one.
— Peter Murphy
Love is the key, love is the secret.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Freud is all nonsense
—  the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.
Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.
— Steven Magee
Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.
— Deyth Banger
Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.
— Patricia Nedelea, Constant Guests
I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Groom
It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Groom
She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.
— Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Every woman should feel like a princess on her wedding day
—  it’s practically a law.
... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Groom
The fact that I am marrying the man of my dreams is all that matters.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Groom
Instead I’ve built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Groom
The secret is to keep yourself interesting.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.
— Emma Mills, First & Then
Are you afraid in there?" she said softly, as the men called out for them."No," he said. "I'm not afraid. You lock me in. They won't get me."She closed the door on the little white face, turned the key in the lock. Then she slipped the key into her pocket. The lock was hidden by a pivoting device shaped like a light switch. It was impossible to see the outline of the cupboard in the paneling of the wall. Yes, he'd be safe there. She was sure of it.The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel."I'll come back for you later. I promise.
— Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Sign this... and I'll show you
— A.J. Hartley, Chasing Shadows
I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.
— Kai Ashante Wilson, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away
— Yasmin Mogahed
There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
What is the use of the colon? What is a colon? Generally it opens onto an explanation, but it is always done with the help of an interruption. It can be said that the colon is not the period, it is the period of the period, the canceling of the period. It is a moment mute and marked; it is the most delicate tattoo of the text. It is also in place of, instead of, everything that would be causal. For example, when we read: "It's simply that: secret." "Secret," is a sentence, it is the shortest sentence perhaps. But it is a sentence in one word. It is a sentence that is secret and that at the same time says its name. One could invert and say: "Secret: it is simply that." This is secret, the secret is the secret of this, it is a word which makes infinite sense all by itself, it is a sentence which performs the secret itself [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989]
— Hélène Cixous
Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world.
— Lauren Blakely, 21 Stolen Kisses
Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.
— Jonathan Franzen
Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.
— Abdul Ali II
We've talked, and alot has been said ,but no words were uttered at all
— A.M.M Alusi
Secret of success is something that will outlast in the life of human being.
— Kishore Bansal
That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and destroys you-have been able to take away from her.
— Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.
— Debasish Mridha
The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.
— J.C. Reed, The Lover's Secret
Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.
— Emily Thorne
Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
— F.H. Bradley
Never share you secret with a married person for the partner will get to hear of it.
— Oppong Amankwaa
His worried face falls away and is replaced with what can only be described as a glow--like someone who has a terrific secret and they're about to let you in on it.
— Katie Clark
even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Music is heard in the background. As the movemnt becomes sharper; the many dancers acting but as one. She is one with her secret. As the time draws near, the woman's body begins to push. With the rhythm of the music and the beat of the dancer's feet; her secret almost revealed.
— Lisa C.  Miller, Godly Inspirations for the Troubled Soul
It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
— John Welwood
Of this poetryI’m left with the emptinessof an endless secret
— Giuseppe Ungaretti
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
— E.L. Konigsburg
If your inner silence begins to wear a silk fruit; only then, the day will reveal to you its hidden secret.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.
— Maxwell Grantly
She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger with your life, your car keys, your best-guarded secret.
— Amruta Patil, Kari
Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.“ I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets, “ Simon said, then looked anxious. “ Wait a second. Do you think that„s likely to be required?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit.
— Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put on its 'manners'; it kept itself out of sight, obliterated itself, but distinctly with an air of saying, 'Ah, but just wait! Wait till we are alone together! Then I will begin to tell you something new! Something white! something cold! something sleepy! something of cease, and peace, and the long bright curve of space! Tell them to go away. Banish them. Refuse to speak. Leave them, go upstairs to your room, turn out the light and get into bed - I will go with you, I will be waiting for you, I will tell you a better story than Little Kay of the Skates, or The Snow Ghost - I will surround your bed, I will close the windows, pile a deep drift against the door, so that none will ever again be able to enter. Speak to them!...' It seemed as if the little hissing voice came from a slow white spiral of falling flakes in the corner by the front window - but he could not be sure.("Silent Snow, Secret Snow")
— Conrad Aiken, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Come with me to howling tree?""What?""Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on
— Debbie Moon
A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly have said; nor perhaps could it even have occurred to him to ask. The thing was above all a secret, something to be preciously concealed from Mother and Father; and to that very fact it owed an enormous part of its deliciousness. It was like a peculiarly beautiful trinket to be carried unmentioned in one's trouser-pocket - a rare stamp, an old coin, a few tiny gold links found trodden out of shape on the path in the park, a pebble of carnelian, a sea shell distinguishable from all others by an unusual spot or stripe-and, as if it were anyone of these, he carried around with him everywhere a warm and persistent and increasingly beautiful sense of possession. Nor was it only a sense of possession - it was also a sense of protection. It was as if, in some delightful way, his secret gave him a fortress, a wall behind which he could retreat into heavenly seclusion.("Silent Snow, Secret Snow")
— Conrad Aiken, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?""No," Miles conceded."Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.
— Richard Russo, Empire Falls
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, The Emperor's Soul
I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.
— Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits
Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.
— Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy
Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.
— Cat Clarke, Undone
Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to end.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now.“Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him.“Oh? Why?”“Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.”Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle.The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison.I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter.
— Sierra Dean, Keeping Secret
Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.
— Anton Chekhov
May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.
— Dillon Burroughs
Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, On the Square - Decoding Freemasonry
We're nobody's dirty little secret.
— Rebecca O'Donnell, Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
— Carolyn  Parkhurst, Lost and Found
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?
— Kristin Cashore, Kristin Cashore eSampler
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
— Charles Bukowski
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, The Secret Island
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, Kristin Cashore eSampler
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, Kristin Cashore eSampler
There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.
— Anthony Liccione
Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.
— Scott Westerfeld
Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.
— Michael Haneke
Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the perpetuation of their epic) and went off to try Everest instead.
— Whipplesnaith
The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting.
— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf
If someone offered the chance to be happy for the rest of your life, everyone in the room will bid, but what they don't know that the secret is nothing, they all have the power already with them.One of the most bizarre quirks of human beings is that they have always craved for happiness and yet have always found it difficult to find the things that would really make them happy. The everlasting happiness cannot be achieved through other people or the materialistic things.
— RKSJ, A Short Affair Called Life
Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
— Charles Dickens
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”“Does that bother you?”“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.
— Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
— Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates the existence of the other.Think about it, people couldn’t become legendary heroes if they hadn’t first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if thereweren’t diseases for them to treat.
— Jessica Shirvington
One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
— Neal Shusterman, Unwind
And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
It's going to be like an...aura, I guess."He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. "Explain?""Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it's like a bubble of goodness. Like coming home."I could feel him smiling and it encouraged me to elaborate. "When I think of how others would see it, I imagine them seeing a force of goodness overshadowing a force of evil, protecting it.
— Jessica Shirvington, Embrace
Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Within the infant rind of this small flowerPoison hath residence and medicine power.For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant,Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.(Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your body. But if you taste it, you die. There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs—good and evil. When evil is dominant, death soon kills the body like cancer.) 
— William Shakespeare
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
— Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger
And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.
— Randall Garrett, Murder and Magic
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.
— Mark Frost, The Paladin Prophecy
Simply put...there is a vast ocean of shit that you people don't know shit ab
— Sgt. Abraham Ford
It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.
— Gene Wolfe, The Wizard
Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.
— Dean Koontz, The Dead Town
There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil.They were kicked out of paradise, because the supposed Creator was unable to reason that giving someone free will to choose between two things while having no notion of either, would be the Himalaya of nonsense.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
— Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
[But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel.
— Sunday Adelaja
I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.
— P.D. James, A Mind to Murder
Although Quirrell couldn’t fend off the dark allure of power, he did provide Harry with a lesson that guided him through the rest of his school career: there is no such thing as good and evil. We become the choices that we make.
— Pottermore Limited
One man's god is another man's devil.
— D.J. LeMarr
The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
We're the gray area, angel. We're the pieces of the puzzle they don't know what to do with, the pieces that don't quite fit into their perfect little picture, so they choose to discard us, to keep their image untainted, but we can only be ignored for so long. Because eventually, whether they want to admit it or not, all of their black and white will bleed together anyway.
— J.M. Darhower, Extinguish
Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Photo Guide
You know,” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
I love you all - if you are not people!
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Unto the pure ‪#‎ALL‬ things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.Titus 1:15.Dinesh Samuel Thank you.THEY SEE EVIL IN YOU BECUASE THEY ARE FULL OF IT.some so called Believers think am against the message. some so called Unbelievers think am going crazy and defends the message. They are all right, because I BELONG TO JESUS ALONE. In Christ Alone.1 Corinthians 13:7 kjv6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
— Mary Tornyenyor
That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
I love you as I do all - not at all.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.
— N.D. Wilson, The Legend of Sam Miracle
There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I used to think this was all about good and evil,” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“No?”“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It’s in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.”“And while we’re alive?”“We set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too.” He patted Parker on the shoulder. “Especially the destroying ones.
— John Connolly, A Time of Torment
Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.
— Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy
Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I love all life as my own. Therefore, I say, you're my very own. But am I, an infidel who does not believe in your ism, also your own?
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Archipiélago Gulag I
Right or wrong is nonexistent in the eye of the universe. It doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong because the universe never cares for both. The universe lets both happen and the universe lets both end. A natural disaster claims all lives. Life and resources is the one that matters. No matter who you are or what you are, you must never harm life and you must never spend resources. These are what matters. I don't know about the afterlife. I don't know whether the afterlife exists, but in this existence, these are what matters.
— Andreas Laurencius, Genesis
You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
— Ellen Hopkins, Identical
I, on the other hand, am very concerned about how word choice will affect my readers. For instance, in the description of Genesis, I chose the term 'good and evil' instead of 'right and wrong', which are basically two same terms. I wanted to use 'right and wrong' because it definitely will ignite more controversies than 'good and evil', but I chose to use the latter because I was afraid of the social influence that can come from reading my book, and although there is no adult material at all in the book, I could risk getting my book banned.
— Andreas Laurencius, Genesis
There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.
— Peter J. Tomasi
Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.
— John Fowles, The Collector
I had no idea you were capable of such a diabolical plan, Human, my friend, just human, the devil doesn’t make plans, anyway, if men were good, he wouldn’t even exist.
— José Saramago
Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.
— Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Evil people relate more to the black pole. It's - this is not exact, of course, as the science of magic is as complex as the magic of electronics - it's like traveling past a mountain. The white pole is at the apex, and it is an exhilarating height, but it takes a lot of work and few missteps to ascend it. The black pole is at the nadir, and it is easy to walk downhill; sometimes you can just sit down and slide or roll and, if you fall, you can get there very fast indeed. If you don't pay attention to where you're going, you'll tend to go down, because it is the course of least resistance. Since the average person has only the vaguest notion where he is going and tends to shut out awareness of the consequence of evil, he inevitably drifts downward. There is much more space at the base of the mountain than at the peak!
— Piers Anthony