Quotes About Obscurity

All that we can say is that the belief in God is universal—with those who believe in him. And even here universality of belief is only secured by their refraining from discussing precisely what it is they mean by "God," and what it is they believe in. There is agreement in obscurity, each one dreading to see clearly the features of his assumed friend for fear he should recognise the face of an enemy.

He who looks in through an open window never sees so many things as he who looks at a shut window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more fertile, more gloomy, or more dazzling, than a window lighted by a candle. What we can see in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind the panes of a window. In that dark luminous hollow, life lives, life dreams, life suffers.

What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed?

Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope.

Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness

For however I may in former days as a young man have liked the notice which the being in a great man's train secures one, now that I have a fixed character of my own, obscurity is far the most agreeable.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun—

the face before him was like nothing he had ever seen before. It was smooth, with a black strip of cloth tied over its forehead, and yet it was deeply furrowed, like the sea, that can have tall waves but not a wrinkle on the surface. The eyes were like dark chasms and yet they were the eyes of a human being and not empty sockets. The skin was a greenish olive colour and looked as if it were made of bronze...

A la luz del farolillo, cuya dudosa claridad se perdía entre las espesas sombras de

caracterul d? form? unei vieÈ›i indiferent de obscuritatea vieÈ›ii respective È™i de cât de rar se reflect? lumina stelelor asupra ei. VocaÈ›ia devine chemare la via??, nu conflict cu ea. Chemarea la onestitate mai curând decât la succes, la iubire È™i relaÈ›ie, la munc? È™i lupt? de dragul vieÈ›ii.

It darkles, (tinct, tint) all this our funnaminal world. Yon marshpond by ruodmark verge is visited by the tide. Alvemmarea! We are circumveiloped by obscuritads. Man and belves frieren.

The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet. A dusk like that of the outer world obscured his mind as he heard the mare's hoofs clattering along the tramtrack on the Rock Road and the great can swaying and rattling behind him.

With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.

The shadow figures outside.

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I've been working pretty solidly for a long time: Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean? It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.