Quotes About Obscurity

for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky.

Why couldn't I fill my hard drive with random bytes, so that individual files would not be discernible? Their very existence would be hidden in the noise, like a striped tiger in tall grass. And we could continually stream random noise back and forth to each other.

describe the darkness. It is pitch black

a chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

There'll always be a part of me that wants to remain mysterious.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

I like places that are shrouded in mystery.

Because hardly anyone has seen 'Aaranya Kaandam,' it's like a mystical Yeti.

I always loved bands with mystique.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so.

Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So

ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.

En la noche hay lo absoluto; en las tinieblas lo múltiple. La gramática, esta lógica no admite singular para las tinieblas, la noche es una, las tinieblas son varias.

La vie, le malheur, l'isolement, l'abandon, la pauvreté, sont des champs de bataille qui ont leurs héros ; héros obscurs plus grands parfois que les héros illustres.

for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it.

porque es una cosa muy obscura y muy dulce ese grande y extraño movimiento de un corazón que se pone a amar.

If I don't want to be seen, you don't see me.