Quotes About Obscurity

Darkness which may be felt.

Anonymous is really just a name for someone who had something great to say, but was not famous enough for anyone to remember their real name.

Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

esse homem que morava numa garrafa de uísque como os barcos dos colecionadores

Mentre io piango come piangono i pini dentro la brocca di resina senza che nessuno se ne accorga [...]

What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.

But he was a man without a shadow -- or perhaps a shadow without a man.

He was an invisible man with no background and no foreground, and plans, strategies and conspiracies he would have taken with him to the grave.

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that's the dream.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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

One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness, Paul thought.

the afternoon shadows gloomed the depths of the city

Black is a blind remembering

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.