Quotes About Obscurity

I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found. That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Oh, you're moonlight, he'd said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.

She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.

who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer

There is a lot to be said for living an unobserved life.

A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She

Some of the world's blackest holes are out in the open for anyone to see....

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?" "I don't even know what language that is.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

I want to be famous but unknown!

I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, and not my love to see.

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

We move in darkness, solemn and extreme.