Simone Schwarz-Bart Quotes

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.