Quotes About Obscurity

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

It was a nearly starless sky. Black clouds hung heavy overhead, blocking out the moon.

But humankind doesn't give a damn ! The proof of it is that in twenty-four years this novel has been collecting dust in libraries and no one, you hear me, no one has ever even talked to me about it. And that's perfectly normal because, as I told you, no one has read it.

N'est-il pas réconfortant, pour un vrai, un pur, un grand, un génial écrivain comme moi, de savoir que personne ne me lit ? Que personne ne souille de son regard trivial les beautés auxquelles j'ai donné naissance dans le secret de mes tréfonds et de ma solitude ?

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.

You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Thus narcissism is an obsession with "what this person, that event means to me." This question about the personal relevance of other people and outside acts is posed so repetitively that a clear perception of those persons and events in themselves is obscured. This absorption in self, oddly enough, prevents gratification of self needs; it makes the person at the moment of attaining an end or connecting with another person feel that "this isn't what I wanted.

Names of heat and names of light, names of collision in the dark

and suddenly darkness, suddenly only darkness.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a restaurant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently, this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

Mmm, one does have to learn to look at art. But it's up to the artist to use language that can be understood. Most of these jokers don't want to use language you and I can learn; they would rather sneer because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If anything. Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Nobody knows who they were or what they were doing, but they left a legacy. — This Is Spinal Tap

Do shadows cast shadows of their own?

He moves in darkness as it seems to me Not of woods only and the shade of trees.