Keeping a secret can be difficult for some people. Being a friend means that there is a certain level of confidence that is instilled in you. These quotes about friends keeping secrets highlight some of the most tried and tested characteristics of a true friend.
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
“A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities”
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
“A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”
“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
“Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets.”
“Don’t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?”
“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
“I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.”
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
“I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.”
“It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.”
“I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.”
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
“Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.”
“Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.”
“The best secrets are the most twisted”
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.”
“The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments.”
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”
“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
“There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.”
“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”
“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.”
“What you didn’t tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”
“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.”
“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Knowing how to keep a secret is one of the first steps to building trust and confidence.
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