Georg Simmel Quotes

Obscurity brings safety.

Obscurity often brings safety.

Veiling truth in mystery.

I want to keep people guessing.

I don't want people to know who I am.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

I like to keep people guessing.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

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.

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself

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

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.