Ian Mcewan Quotes

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

There are so many secrets in our world.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

What else are we not knowing about, and when didn’t we know it.

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

Keeping secrets is hard.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

A woman conceales what shee knowes not.