# Quotes about secrets - Quotes: 9 - Authors: 8 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets ## Quotes > Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The War of the Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds/night-the-mother.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > There are secrets in all families. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/there-are-secrets.md) Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern dass sie ist. [Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein.md) · [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus/nicht-wie-die.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. [Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein.md) · [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus/it-is-not.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalised. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/happiness-is-a-mystery.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) · p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/secrets-silent-stony.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Second Foundation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation/secrecy-as-deep.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > You know, we’re not used to secrecy up here. It’s not encouraged. We all have to work together to keep alive. Secrecy is corrosive, Professor, bad for morale. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [Sunstorm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/sunstorm.md) · p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/sunstorm/you-know-were.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md) > A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them? [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/a-wonderful-fact.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md)