Quotes About Obscurity

We, the creative class, are finding ways to make a living making music, drawing webcomics, writing articles, coding games, recording podcasts. Most people don't know our names or faces. We are not on magazine covers at the grocery store. We are not rich, and we are not famous.

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.

I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

In a hundred and fifty years no one alive will ever have known me. Being forgotten like that, entering that great and ongoing blank, seems more like death than death. ?

It's a self-obliteration that never stops and that no one notices.

The eye sockets of their skulls are dark, like they've got all the night inside their heads.

In the Lower City, eclipses were the worst of ill omens being as they were the special providence of the God of the Obscured Sun.

deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.