Quotes About Obscurity

Darkness. Blindness. Fear. Fury. They're all the same thing.

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

I wish I was invisible to him, to everyone.

We] glide serenely through the water, safe in our knowledge that we are nothing more than a blurry peripheral shape glimpsed in passing through the foggy, tinted goggles of the swimmer in the next lane.

I want to be invisible.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I wish someone would discover a way to become invisible.

Como sempre, a guerra proporciona grandes oportunidades aos homens ambiciosos que teriam permanecido na obscuridade em tempos de paz.

It is what the unimportant do that really counts and determines the course of history. The greatest forces in the universe are never spectacular. Summer showers are more effective than hurricanes, but they get no publicity. The world would soon die but for the fidelity, loyalty and consecration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung.1

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

More surveillance cameras then followers lately.

She almost blended in with the wall, dissolved, faded. Could a person become so pale that she was no longer visible?

He understood, as he would write in Walking, that the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about rafters?

I think I could die without its being noticed.

There was a sort of spell in the sense that nobody in the world knew where she was. It was the first time in her life that this had happened; somebody, everybody appeared to have known before, at every instant of it, where she was; so that she was now suddenly able to put it to herself that that hadn't been a life.

The golden bowl – as it was to have been.' And Maggie dwelt musingly on this obscured figure. 'The bowl with all our happiness in it. The bowl without the crack.

Julia would have got over the other woman, but she would never get over his becoming a nobody

She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!

I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!

Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.