Hidden Thoughts Quotes

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

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

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.