Quotes About Obscurity

I am the first to admit that I have never been a household name.

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

She is the darkness.

Nobody who wasn't down there

As rich Cahill superstars went, Fidelio Racco was definitely on the B-list. Maybe even the D-list. Google had heard of him, but a search for his surname placed him below Racco Auto Body in Toronto and Trattoria Racco in Florence, and only slightly ahead of the Rack O'Lamb Irish Chop House in Des Moines.

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

per ogni protagonista comparso per una volta sul cosiddetto palcoscenico della storia, sono stati migliaia, milioni coloro che non sono mai entrati nel teatro, che non hanno mai saputo che lo spettacolo si stava svolgendo, che hanno continuato l'ingrato lavoro di far fronte alla realtà.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

Some treatments, however, seemed to be based on obscure superstitions rather than therapeutic traditions, and they were as contrary to common sense as they were to any notions of medical science.

In the feeble light, it wasn't clear what I was supposed to see.

through his thick, black hair.

I'm more sort of attracted to these worlds that are very hard to gain access to. I think those are the most interesting stories.

Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.

In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.

What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity,

Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.

I beg to differ," said Doyle. "Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.

The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is. Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271