Quotes tagged ‘The Secret of Secrecy’

“The Son of God died: it is immediately credible — because it is absurd. He was buried, and rose again: it is certain —because it is impossible”

— Tertullian, en.wikipedia.org

“A third unspeakable subject, beyond ethics and aesthetics, is metaphysics: the study of why some aspect of totality of world events is not accidental.”

— Thomas Harrison, publishing.cdlib.org

“So opaque are these figures of speech that whatever significance they promise retreats to the penumbras of unintelligibility.”

— Thomas Harrison, publishing.cdlib.org

“The articulate remains always embedded in the inarticulate.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

“Some things can't be told. You live them or you don't. But they can't be told. I'm sorry”

— Mike Flanagan, Hugh Crain, Timothy Hutton, imdb.com

“One talks about a thing by talking about something else.”

— Kenneth Burke, amazon.com

“It is a language that has at once come and will never come, a language we're always already speaking and will never speak.”

— Daniel Coffeen, hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com

“In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly the hidden heavenly commences.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, poetryfoundation.org

“The female body’s unbearable hiddenness applies to all aspects of men’s dealings with women. What does it look like in there? Did she have an orgasm? Is it really my child? Who was my real father? Mystery shrouds woman’s sexuality.”

— Camille Paglia, amazon.com

“Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it’s there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it’s not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified…”

— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com

“We all want to see that which is hidden.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

“I'm afraid the articulate is the enemy of the erotic. Isn't the whole point that you don't know what your love will do next, that you give yourself over to a sensory experience that you haven't planned and can't control? The reason I like sex is because I can finally, for a moment, turn off my neuro…”

— David Henry Hwang, Juliette Le Gall, Irène Jacob, imdb.com

“She was induced to conceal from him, the concealer, her awareness of what he concealed.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“Her charm was too compelling not to be tasted in secret and too sacred to be openly violated.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“Things keep their secrets.”

— Heraclitus, amazon.com

“And there's the long knowing of love — all of it unsayable.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, joannamacy.net

“One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.”

— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com

“All we communicate to others is an orientation towards what is secret without ever being able to tell the secret objectively.”

— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com

“If one wishes to deceive, what one presents is the paining of a veil, something that incites them to ask what is behind it.”

— Jacques Lacan, amazon.com

“The very suggestion of a secret operates less as a barrier to communication than as part of a familiar code that defines communications as erotic. What the secret is — or whether a secret even exists — is irrelevant to the intelligibility given to the relation by the mere appearance of a secret.”

— Ulysse Dutoit, Leo Bersani, amazon.com