Quotes About Obscurity

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don't want to be one of those guys.

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

in a voice with half the steps missing.

A rua estava escura de qualquer coisa mais que a noite.

What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether

Hic tibi nocturns praestbit creus igns: Subducta est puer namque lucerna tu.

There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then…

Our parents' lives, even those enfolded in obscurity, offer us our first, strong assurance that human events have consequence. Here we are, after all.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view

Monomania. Monogamy. Monotony. Nothing good begins this way.

From what I did and what I said Let them not seek to find who I was

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

Lost in the crowd, it's all right to pretend for a moment to be no one.

It's a protected historical building. They had to preserve the internal walls." It was the kind of obscure stuff Marcus was good at remembering, and it always came in handy.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity