Quotes About Obscurity

I was rather obsessed with angels.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

I'm very, very used to feeling anonymous, you know?

It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.

Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.

I love to be anonymous.

I myself delve into very arcane things.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

I will leave no memoirs.

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

I am a waning bird encased in a glass sphere; I cannot see my prison, and my cries no one can hear.

Chinese dumpling and noodle trainspotters know that the best versions usually come from obscure hole-in-the-wall joints where personal space and flattering lighting isn't a consideration and splatter-proof menus are customary.

Moby-Dick for Nothing

There's no lights

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They became supernovas of nothingness that turned into black holes of pathetic shit as they sank in on themselves and disappeared from existance. People like that were not even missed.

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.

Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.