Hiddenness Quotes

You have to know how to disappear.

Life is a masquerade.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Nature loves to hide.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

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

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.