Quotes About Obscurity

not know or had scarcely heard of, like Ingrid Bergman or Marilyn Monroe.

Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

Sotto le nuvole bianche, cade la neve. Non si vedono né le nuvole, né la neve. Né il gelo, né lo splendore candido della terra. Un omino solo scivola sopra i suoi sci e va. La neve cade. Cade fino a che l'omino scompare tornando nella sua opacità. Il mio amico Serge, un amico di tanti e tanti anni, ha comprato un quadro. E' una tela di circa un metro e sessanta per uno e venti. Raffigura un uomo che attraversa lo spazio e poi scompare.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Good thing I brought my haze of emptiness!

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

You couldn't martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.

I find it obscene that countries have fallen apart and people are now organized on the basis of the order of their molecules and the waves they emit. I

I don't need to have the most, be the best, or reach the top. It is okay to pursue a life marked by obscurity and simplicity. It doesn't matter what I own or how I'm perceived.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

People either see me or they don't.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know." ... "It's unbearable, the not knowing.

Well, as they say, all cats are grey in the dark.

But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.

I said, "This is what happens when you find Gideon." Eyes