Quotes About Obscurity

After she had spoken she looked out the window once more. Darkness had fallen and she could see only her own reflection in the glass. The intruder had gone, though she had scarcely noticed him slip away. She looked at herself in the window. Soon there would be no reflection of her anywhere at all.

I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.

Siempre fui un nadie bien definido cuya mayor ansia fue ser un alguien indefinido.

Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—'(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that.

Occasionally someone will ask me about how ego fits into the leadership equation. They'll want to know what keeps a leader from having a huge ego. I think the answer lies in each leader's pathway to leadership. If people paid their dues and gave their best in obscurity, ego is usually not a problem.

Not everyone wants to be out of the spotlight as she did. But it's important for a leader to learn to work in obscurity because it is a test of personal integrity. The key is being willing to do something because it matters, not because it will get you noticed.

His beginnings were obscure, and, as everyone knows, he got rich enough to be an ambassador.

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Leave me to rot in the position I am. No one will ever know I'm gone.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

I've learnt that it's possible to be as anonymous as you want. It's a choice, and I've become very, very good at being anonymous.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

I have written a number of short biographical studies of insignificant personages from literary history. My interest has always been in writing biographies of the also-rans: people who lived in the shadow of fame in their own lifetime and who, since their death, have sunk into profound obscurity.

Being invisible had its advantages.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

It is only me, the body in the shower, one person enclosed in plastic watching a drop of water skate down the wet curtain. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It is a moment never to be thought of except when it is in the process of unfolding.

It's the novelist who understand the secret life, the rage that underlies all obscurity and neglect. You're half murderers, most of you.

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.

The business had upset him, that I knew, but I also knew that there was something about the operatic sweep of the search which could not fail to appeal to him and that he was pleased, however obscurely, with the aesthetics of the thing.

being famous is a thing that depends greatly on position and opportunity. It is not enough to possess gifts and powers: there must also be the means of exhibiting them. For want of opportunity some of the greatest men perhaps are buried in obscurity.