Quotes About Obscurity

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

the whole mystery

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night

Hope on you is worthless because you make a mark to forgot

The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I

You can disappear here without knowing it.

While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No … one … would … care.

While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No … one … would … care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief.

spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue.

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.

And these are your reasons, my lord? Do you think I have others? said Lord Vetinari. My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent. Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of.

The night was as black as the inside of a cat.

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

She wrapper herself in an enigma, there was no other way to keep warm.

a definite hostility to being looked at, like a vampire or a vacationing Olsen

wishing I could read his face, but it was hidden

if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.