Haruki Murakami Quotes

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

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.

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

Sometimes I hid my family connections.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

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

But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

Things keep their secrets.

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.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

Somebody is always hiding something.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier