“A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.” PeopleLongEarthPowerfulSecretEmptyRemainsFilledNotionMasonicFilled Up Author:Umberto Eco
“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.” SelfSecretBehindsSelf LoveEmptyBlindGlassesVanityTransparentLiftingProdigalsEmpty Heads Author:Horace
“Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” SpiritStrongSecretEmptyConvictionStomachSurvivingDeprivation Author:Nelson Mandela
“This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.” WayFeelsUseMightPainSecretSecurityLetting GoHeartbreakStonesEmptyRageBlanketSleevesKnotsAcesSwelling Author:Jodi Picoult
“Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.” IfsKnowsStoriesDreamEyeTodayLyingSecretFictionWonderKnow HowForeverTomorrowPromiseEmptyBallsYesterdayTalesCraftsStaringHis EyesFairyFairy TaleSwearCrystalsVowCrystal BallSketchbooksEmpty Promises Book:Tricks Source: Tricks
“Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.” PeopleIfsInspirationalMadeMightPainNightSongGivenBlackMemoriesSecretKnownSacrificePoetWeaknessLonelyEmptyRaisesSlaveryTalesTragicPotRevealingMonumentLonely Nights Author:Maya Angelou
“What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsNextSpaceSecretAcceptingDoorsEmptyWarriorUnexpectedWhat IfYou ChooseDoorwaysAnother WorldUnexpected ThingsSecret Doors Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.” KnowsSecretTearsConversationEternalFlowEmptyCelebrationRejoiceGlancesAlasUnspokenMoscow Author:Anna Akhmatova
“I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsHeartFeelingsFeltSpaceRoomsSecretHappenedBabyMy HeartFirst TimeEmptyStaringWithout You Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.” MindReasonMightFacesWaterAnimalSecretBehindsMillionsSeaWallCivilizationOceanWindowEmptySakeWaveDeeperSmellWideMilesHolesCellsLeapShoreHookFragmentsCliffsDon't TrustLureFling Author:Tana French
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.” IfsLittlesPersonsDifferentEndsHelpingParentGoalLinesPartySecretPerceptionMy FamilyEmptyChaosIntenseDependentLiarsCherishFearfulImpressionableThinnessPerception Of OthersGood Liar Author:Marya Hornbacher
“Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.” KnowsWritingWellsSaidBookDreamSchoolLastsSecretOne DayKissingSummerEmptyMeetingsUpsetGirlfriendClassroomTeaseLast SummerFunny Harry Potter Author:J. K. Rowling
“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” IfsTryingHumansBodySpiritFoundStrongSecretBearsCircumstancesSurvivalCapacityEmptyConvictionEnormousStomachTestedHuman BodySurvivingUnbearableDeprivationAdjusting Book:Long Walk To Freedom Source: Long Walk To Freedom