Quotes About Obscurity

There existed between Erzsébet and the external world something like a vacuum, like the padding in a madman's cell. The eyes of the portrait proclaim it; she wished to seize and couldn't touch. Then, the wish to be awake but not to be alive, that is what kindles the taste for blood, the blood of others; perhaps this was the hidden secret which, ever since her birth, had been obscured from her.

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application. Labour and Time are the Instruments in the perfection of all Work.

Her name is unimportant and her face a visual sin.

Night came down around them, and the windows gave them back their faces, blurred into generalities.

What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it better that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small . . . and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

One of God's greatest mercies is that he keeps us perpetually occluded.

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.

If you speak to people, you just attract their attention," he said, with a shaking voice. "You should just keep quiet and still and they overlook you. I've been doing it all my life. I know how to do it. Your way, you just—you make yourself visible.

Modern culture's insatiable appetite for photo-ops keeps the not-so-accomplished Tinkerbelles from gracefully slipping into obscurity where they should have remained in the first place.

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows what to call me in relation to you.

No existe nada más que el éxito, el resto es invisibilidad.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...

I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.

The dark obscurity into which her career then lapsed reflects her staunchly independent political stances rather than any deficiency of craft or vision.

How could the recipient of two Guggenheims and the author of four novels, a dozen short stories, two musicals, two books on black mythology, dozens of essays, and a prizewinning autobiography virtually 'disappear' from her readership for three full decades?

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

It's weird when somebody I don't know from Adam knows my face and knows my name.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity.