Secret Life Quotes

“Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and other derogations, she emanates upward in women, so that even the most quiet, even the most restrained woman keeps a secret place for Wild Woman, Even the more repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural. Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that human life is full of contrasts, but in the case of each individual human being he imagined all that part of his or her life with which he was not familiar as being identical with the part with which he was. He imagined what was kept secret from him in the light of what was revealed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“You’re full of secrets, aren’t you?”
― Rae Knightly, Ben Archer and the World Beyond

“I am comfortable with no contact with a cheating ex, as it brings on bad feelings about what happened.”
― Steven Magee

“You can never tell who is gay if they are ‘in the closet’.”
― Steven Magee

“Then, there is the secret life.
There, alone and in our own realm;
Here, we fantasize about sex, romance,
and being wealthy. No one knows.
Except, when we cross over
and violate societal mores. We betray,
experience relationships that would be scorned
in the other two lives. And to the extent we deviate
from the norms, the greater amount of time
is expended for clandestine pursuits.
And we stay here, because it’s addictive.


From the poem, "The Addictive Life.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2003

“Then, there is the secret life.
There, alone and in our own realm.
Here, we fantasize about sex, romance,
and being wealthy. No one knows.
Except, when we cross over
and violate societal mores. We betray,
experience relationships that would be scorned
in the other two lives. And to the extent we deviate
from the norms, the greater amount of time
is expended for clandestine pursuits.
And we stay here because it’s addictive.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2003

“Cheating seems like such a hard life when you can be loyal and faithful and live out your life in happiness!”
― Steven Magee

“Silence guards the treasures of your soul. Let your life be a book with some pages that need to be read.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“Nikada neću moći vratiti prošlost, nikada neću uspjeti izaći iz tmine nazad na svjetlo. Zauvijek ću morati živjeti pod krinkom, skrivajući svoje pravo ja pred cijelim svijetom.”
― B.A. Paris, Bring Me Back