Quotes About Obscurity

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

The passageway was still as dark as a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.

Because if I'm right about this guy, he's getting better and better at killing. And nobody even knows he exists.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.

You could stand her on a corner, in a fog, at midnight, and she'd be visible for three miles.

was chilling and eerily invasive. It tied the flowers

Now was too big, like a giant dark planet coming up over the horizon. she wanted then. That's what he'd seen that day, a brightness with darkness all around, watching her, as if she were glamorous, as if she were a rare and mysterious creature.

The lives of great artists and thinkers and statesmen are like the lives of the great extinct species, the tyrannosaurs and stegosaurs, while the lives of the obscure can be likened to extinct species of beetles.

The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.

Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. The Soviet bloc was a genuine mystery. Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if 'the Russians love their children too.'

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.