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Quotes About Obscurity

So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.
~ Thomas Mullen
That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never to be doubted. characters like these naturally breed in the putrefaction of distempered times, and after fattening on the disease, they perish with it, or, impregnated with the stench, retreat into obscurity.
~ Thomas Paine
This randomness makes her feel like vapor, someone inconsequential and invisible.
~ Thrity Umrigar
All my good movies, nobody sees.
~ Chris Evans
If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.
~ Max Martin
Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.
~ Emma Watson
In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.
~ Jay Parini
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
~ Bob Dylan
Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.
~ Kate Jackson
I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.
~ Robert Redford
I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.
~ Lindsey Vonn
I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.
~ Christian Laettner
As a model, only a limited number of people knew about me.
~ Siddharth Shukla
Be obscure clearly.
~ E. B. White
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
~ Horace
'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.
~ Chester Brown
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
~ Patrick Modiano
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.
~ Robert Eggers
We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.
~ Kelela
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
~ Hosea Ballou
I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
~ Claire Tomalin