Quotes About Obscurity

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

I was doing just fine on my own before the old man died and Lisa came storming back into my life. I was writing, building my audience, travelling, not thinking about fire, not thinking about Lisa as much as I used to. David Bourenhem was of zero concern to me. I was free. I'll say it again: I . . . was . . . free. But now the old paranoia has raised its ugly, scarred head again. The paranoia, the obsessions, the bad habits. The fire. They're all sneaking back into my life.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

POST Not a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)

Nox atra cava circumvolat umbra

dimmed completely.

It's so dark, I thought, studying it from the street. The whole house was covered in darkness, as if it were hiding in the shadows of the gnarled, old trees that bent over it.

I need to be a vampire, she said. and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess. I was wrong. She was really crazy.

The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness.

darkening sea full of stirred silt and clouds of minute

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend.

No helicopters are aloft. If boats ply the lake, they do so without running lights.

can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness. —T. S. ELIOT, Choruses from The Rock, VII

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

I don't want to be in an easy division, I don't want to be a champion that no one knows.