Quotes About Obscurity

Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.

You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your job if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the advantage of others.

Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.

I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick)

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

Unfortunately for our esteem, societies of the West are not known for their conduciveness to the surrender of pretensions, to the acceptance of age or fat, let alone poverty and obscurity.

the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.

Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am.

The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart. "Cloud

Et l'angoisse obscure des heures qui passent a beau se faire chaque jour plus grande, Drogo s'obstine dans l'illusion que ce qui est important n'est pas encore commencé.

Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.