Quotes About Obscurity

And through the gloom I saw that mortal boy watching me, and I smelled the hot aroma of his flesh.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

The best way to not get caught was to not be seen

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

There is a man you see in casinos, usually small, usually dressed by JCPenney, usually not a gambler, who creeps around in soft shoes with a smile of fascination stuck on his face and the body language of a Peeping Tom. He dreams of sniffing your armpits. Or he wants to sit where you just sat. All while he wears his JCPenney costume and speaks in harmless drivel.

when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Even in a place like this, there are dark corners.

For one month, Evan Ratliff shed his identity and tried to disappear.

Anonymity, he thought, is seductive.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle—that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?

When you think about all the infinitely many galaxies and combinations of DNA, and against all those odds you meet this person - it's a miracle...' 'Right,' I said. I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle - that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up by how quantifiably lovable they are?

and the words were night in the night and we were shadows.

I don't know. I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.

I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.

What settled over him felt like the brush of a silk sheet down his skin. What followed that touch was blackness, utter and complete.

I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trave in the fables of their time.

I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't.

She has no idea who I am, not really. She's just someone who's noticed me because the video and she'll forget what she's said before the day is over. Me? Not so much, but I go on, my legs shaking and a mix of anger and despair burning inside me.