Quotes About Obscurity

I like what's obscure.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

I should like to be a periwinkle, said he, mysteriously, on the top of a valley, and sing tooralloo-ralloo. This was clearly too obscure, so I turned again to Coglan.

La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver.

Es difícil no simpatizar con Michaux: más vale ser desconocido que mal conocido. La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver. (Prólogo de «Las enseñanzas de don Juan»)

It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

In the dark, where do shadows go?

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.

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.