Abraham Cowley Quotes

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

I say nothing to him I love him

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

Tell him I took the cat

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.