Quotes About Obscurity

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

No light, but rather darkness visible.

Dark with excessive bright.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.

It was good to be peaceful again, to be one's self; it was wonderful to be unknown in the crowd. (MacLennan 1945, 120)

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

What is it he doesn't want people to see by keeping the windows covered? It makes a person wonder. I guess

No one ever notices Sydelle Pulaski," she muttered, "but now they will. Now they will.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

We do not adopt a belief because it is true (they are all true), but because some obscure power impels us to do so. When this power leaves us, we suffer prostration and collapse, a tete-a-tete with what is left of ourselves.

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.

The only moments I think of with relief are those when I sought to be nothing for anyone, when I blushed at the notion of leaving the slightest trace in the memory of a single human being...

Let grief distract the sufferer's breast, And night obscure his way; They hasten him to endless rest, And everlasting day.

Era come se tutte le cose che vedevo fossero coperte da un filtro e io non riuscissi a pensare a niente in modo semplice e diretto. Ero stata catturata dal potere di quella notte.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.

those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God. If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness.

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.