hidden nature Quotes

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.