Quotes About Obscurity

Until all titles are taken away Events are finally obscure forever You wake and wonder Whose case history you composed As your confessions are filed In the dialect Of bureaux and electrons

Excellence, here, was in proportion to obscurity: the one who was best was the one who was least observed, least distinguished.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

film and calculus, both pornographies of flight.

Are you the man who reads phone books?

receding in an asymmetric V to the east where it's dark and there are no more bars.

Roger and Jessica leave the doctor at a side entrance, into which he melts, leaving nothing but rain dripping from slopes and serifs of an unreadable legend on the lintel.

If you were doing something in secret and didn't want the attention, what better way to have it ridiculed and dismissed than bring in a few Californian elements?

How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown.

secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.

Or will she appear down below, a pale blinking girl in the dark lake of the parking lot?

Mystery is essential, they say. Mystery. Well, I was in one of those right now, and I couldn't say that I liked it very much.

There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick. No Names

A masterpiece of vagueness.

and entered the back of the building. She

her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed

It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

A black cavern is our silence.

Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke.

It's not good to stare too long at the Mire. It might look back.

It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.

Depois de sumir, o melhor é continuar assim; voltar é se rematerializar na loucura alheia.