Quotes About Obscurity

She could hide in this small, dull life.

Later, as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.

I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Que no la conocerá nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguirá.

de más en más me interesaba el mundo oscuro de la sensación, negra noche donde fulguran y ruedan soles enceguecedores...

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

To avoid criticism: Say noting, do nothing, be nothing.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

I will not put a name to what has no name

I will not put a name to what has none.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

And that was about all that he really wished the world to know about himself. "I am a nobody," he would write toward the end of the century, when fame had begun to creep up on him. "Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." But

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing.

To the depths of terror, too dark to hear, to see.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.