Quotes About Obscurity

Lo que yo quiero, es ser admirado de los demás, elogiado de los demás [...]. Pero esta vida mediocre... ser olvidado cuando muera, eso sí que es horrible [...] sin embargo, algún día me moriré, y los trenes seguirán caminando, y la gente irá al teatro como siempre, y yo estaré muerto, bien muerto... muerto para toda la vida.

Nevertheless his work lived on, precariously, desperately (as he would have wished, perhaps), yet it lived on. A handful of young men read it, reinvented him, tried to become his followers, but how can you follow someone who is not moving, someone who is trying, with every appearance of success, to become invisible?

I'm mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.

Be one of many. Be sure that they never have reason to remember your face.

To the end of his life he remained convinced of the high calling of the genuine artist, and he knew that artists must sometimes toil in obscurity, and in the face of prevailing public opinion.

Gerçekten de ilginç ne varsa hep gizli kapakl? yaÅŸan?yor. Ä°nsanlar?n gerçek tarihleri hakk?nda hiçbir ÅŸey bilinmiyor..

Because of the rain, there was nobody else out on the street. Even if there was, Katherine and Sam wouldn't have noticed. There were lost in their own world.

Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Nihil Relinquere et Nihil Vestigi. It says 'to leave nothing behind and no trace.

We need to leave our lusting forever larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him. Then, even if we are located in the most obscure corner of the globe, the world will make a road to our door to get that answer. Our service of help to our fellows then becomes incidental to our vision of God, and the direct consequence of it.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because true freedom comes from being unknown.

We stand in darkness, surrounded by light

The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

Hava hâlâ, grimtrak bulutlar aras?nda kaybolan uçsuz bucaks?z ufkun seçilebileceÄŸi kadar ayd?nl?kt?.

and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, than that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of heaven?

Quanto a Bonaparte, mais uma vez impelido pelo destino para Paris, centro dos grandes acontecimentos, retomou a vida obscura e oculta que tanto lhe pesava.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.