Quotes about Privacy

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean and untrue things while hiding behind a pseudonym—well, if I get a letter like that it goes straight in the bin. But

Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Going on from there, they passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.

For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.