Quotes About Obscurity

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

I enjoyed being anonymous.

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.

Undertakings based on an inner tenacity have to be mute and obscure; one has only to declare or glory in them and it all appears silly, without meaning, even petty.

There is someone looking through the befogged glass, he opens the glass door of the bar, everything is misty, inside, too, as if seen by nearsighted eyes, or eyes irritated by coal dust.

I am not at all the sort of person who attracts attention, I am an anonymous presence against an even more anonymous background.

Ali nije samo to: u dnevnoj svjetlosti u tom difuznom blijedom sjaju bez sjena nalazim tamu još guš?u od no?ne.

The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.

Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do.

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

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.

I'm not interested in security through obscurity. I want real security mechanisms, solutions that work for _everybody_. Yes, that's a lot more difficult than randomly blowing away "suspicious" portions of the Internet mail infrastructure, but it's the Right Thing To Do.

I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money are evil, and artists who are poor are virtuous.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

Darkness, you know, is relative.

If you hid long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that someone has seen the mark you left behind.

Invisibility, actually, was something he was pretty good at. He'd perfected it over the past twelve years.