Quotes About Obscurity

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Les murs sont infiniment nus. Rien n'y est suspendu, rien de les définit. Ils sont dépourvus de texture. Même à l'œil le plus aguerri ou aux doigts les plus sensibles, ils demeurent illisibles. Vous ne trouverez jamais ici la moindre marque. Aucune trace ne survit. Les murs effacent tout. Ils sont en permanence lavés de toute trace. Obliques, à jamais obscurs et vierges. On a là le parfait panthéon de l'absence.

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window.

On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

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

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

I wasn't cold, I wasn't anything at all I was only a blur.

Skrajny wyraz postaw antysynturalnych to ukradkowe samobójstwo porcjowane. Akt rozpoczyna siÄ™ zazwyczaj od niewinnego obgryzania paznokci

Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.

I see holes like eyes

Their faces were zealously blank, their eyes filled with bland fire.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.