Dana Gioia Quotes

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

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.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

Dead men tell no tales.

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

Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.