Quotes About Obscurity

As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures.

I'd rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion.

My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I've shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I've become a not entirely clear and definite individual.

I'm sure that all this, I mean other people's attitudes towards me, lies principally in some obscure intrinsic flaw in my own temperament. Perhaps I communicate a coldness that unwittingly obliges others to reflect back my own lack of feeling.

I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea

Morrer é só não ser visto.

La inmensidad vacía de las cosas, el gran olvido que hay en el cielo y la tierra.

To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I've shaped my life

We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns.

I looked at my hand through it and saw nothing that was recognisable. Then I looked at several other things but saw nothing that I could clearly see. MacCruiskeen took it back with a smile at my puzzled eye. It magnifies to invisibility, he explained. It makes everything so big that there is room in the glass for only the smallest particle of it—not enough of it to make it different from any other thing that is dissimilar.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.

I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Mais je croy que je Suis descendu on puiz Ténébreux onquel disoit Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée.