Quotes About Obscurity

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

They who walk in the light do not see those in the shadow.

Oh, God, today I pray [to] you on my knees for Dostoevsky's obscurity, blindness, the most sacred and precious of all things.

I find these nobodies so much more interesting than the celebrated people. Why is that?

Dark be not dark but some other desire

Night would settle in like slow blindness

Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible

The best secrets are the most twisted

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.

But I'm kind of used to being invisible

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close.

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...

Ask whomever you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging

Yet few came so far, so fast, so alone, as Nixon. Not the governor of California or his aides, nor any member of the state's delegation to Congress knew Richard Nixon's name. He was, he would remember, "somebody who was nothing.

Darkness fell like a wet sponge.

especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE).

Our lust is furious and our greed limitless in pursuing wealth and honors, chasing after power, heaping up riches, and gathering all those vain things which seem to give us grandeur and glory. On the other hand, we greatly fear and hate poverty, obscurity, and humility, and so we avoid these realities in every way. Thus, we see that those who order their lives according to their own counsel have a restless disposition. We

Only an idiot asks questions like "Have you read all of these books?" or "Have you listened to all of those CDs?" Seriously, there should be a number that one can call under those circumstances, after which a squad of big blokes will arrive at one's door and beat the questioning fool unconscious with a pristine copy of À la recherche du temps perdu , or that collection of the Complete Works of Beethoven that was just too cheap to pass up.

chased by the shadows of clouds.

and favored an obscure French perfume that reminded Kirk of dead chanteuses. Madlyn still saw the ghosts

Wolf's wits, moving now, in spite of the fumes of smoke and alcohol, with restored clarity, achieved a momentous orientation of many obscure matters.