Elizabeth I Quotes

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

I like to keep my thoughts private.

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

There’s no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.