Quotes About Obscurity

Be the light for all the world to see or be the darkness that hides in the shadows.

The word is a flame burning in a dark glass.

It was a feminist act, revealing secrets in order to free herself and the women of her clan from the silence and obscurity to which a misogyny thousands of years old would have relegated them.

Perché invero che cosa c'è da sapere su chi scompare? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi è diventato invisibile? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi sta sanguinando con la bocca piena di foglie scure?

Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.

What he was was pretty near invisible, except for the bell of his horn, the all-but-closed eyes, the Arabian nose, the brown hair with its halo of white ends, the desperate oralness, the giant reed punched into his face, and hazy Quadberry, loving the wound in a private dignified ecstasy.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Con el tiempo nuestro nombre caerá en el olvido y nadie se acordará de nuestras obras. Pasará nuestra vida como rastro de nubes y como neblina se disipará, acosada por los rayos del sol y abatida por su calor.

Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

Su mueca es fofa, su palabra muda, su mirar opaco.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

This one will see into the shadows.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

But all I had to show for my efforts was an impressive familiarity with obscure Sailor Moon trivia and an inexplicable desire to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask (which I may or may not have acted upon in the solitude and privacy of my own home).

obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.) Despite

his obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.)

Most often the little man makes himself even smaller than he already is, so as not to be seen.

vague, very vague.

As palavras que te envio são interditas até, meu amor, pelo halo das searas; se alguma regressasse, nem já reconhecia o teu nome nas suas curvas claras.

Lectio divina provides us with a discipline, developed and handed down by our ancestors, for recovering the context, restoring the intricate web of relationships to which the Scriptures give witness but that are so easily lost or obscured in the act of writing.