Quotes About Obscurity

invisible and yet having a spotlight on

I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me. I feel invisible is what I mean.

Please try to understand this: I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me. I feel invisible, is what I mean. But I mean it in the deepest way. It is very hard to explain. And I cannot explain it except to say—oh, I don't know what to say! Truly, it is as if I do not exist, I guess is the closest thing I can say. I mean I do not exist in the world.

He dived deeper and deeper into his books; he had taken all obsolescence to be his province; in his disgust at the stupid usual questions, "Will it pay?" "What good is it?" and so forth, he would only read what was uncouth and useless.

I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful. It

Arthur Machen

In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them.

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition— The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse... and doesn't have the whole world know.

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Ausentes como estábamos de todo lo que nos rodeaba, en la contemplación de ese rostro apasionante, no nos dimos cuenta de que había pasado la noche, de que había llegado hasta nosotros, disfrazada con la tibieza del deseo consumado y con la luz del alba, la muerte.

Questo luogo caldo e umido, che sapeva di muffa, dove aveva trovato rifugio, era un mausoleo di libri, un tesoro dimenticato, un cimitero di tutte le pagine non lette e illeggibili.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.