David Foster Wallace Quotes

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

The best secrets are the most twisted

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.

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

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

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

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

A woman conceales what shee knowes not.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Things keep their secrets.

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.