Quotes About Obscurity

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

That man has no shadow.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

All I know is a door into the dark

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.