Quotes About Obscurity

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Me retiré lleno de curiosidad y hambriento de las ideas nuevas que muy pronto colmarían mi espíritu con la ayuda de Soberano. Lo vi al otro día, y los siguientes; no tuve otra pasión; me convertí en su sombra.

Noi solchiamo i meandri della storia. Noi siamo le ombre di cui le cronache non parleranno. Noi non esistiamo.

I would never have to fake my own death, he found himself thinking. I've all but vanished already. Part of him welcomed that. Another part, larger but distributed so thinly across his personality that it seemed invisible, panicked soundlessly on a twenty-four-hour schedule.

He'd been thinking about the quality of sunshine, that is, how daylight wipes away the stars and the planets, making them invisible to human eyes. If one needed the darkness in order to see the heavens, might daylight be a form of blindness? Could it be that sound was also a form of deafness? If so, what was silence?

I waited for someone to remark on my absence, but no one did, for no one had noticed. Why would they? I was nothing, a stone. One more nymph child among the thousand thousands.

the feeling that I was becoming no one at all

Melville's Moby-Dick—

The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—" She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. "This. I committed that crime so that you will never

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

No one will even know.

Being forgotten is worse then not being noticed.

Some of the most beautiful and fulfilling things in life are often things that we have very little understanding of.

Jesus himself, even in his obscurity, dreaded the gathering of crowds, and where possible avoided them. Everything in Christianity that matters is from individual to individual; collectivities belong to the Devil, and so easily respond to his persuasion. The Devil is a demagogue and sloganeer; Jesus was, and is, concerned with individual souls, with the Living Word. What he gives us is truth carried on the wings of love, not slogans carried on the thrust of power.

Down here everything is symbol and mystery.

the story of Offa's rise to power is frustratingly obscure.

Edward reigned for a quarter of a century, very little is known about him as a person.

It was one of those details that dwell in a special kind of obscurity reserved for the perfectly obvious.

He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was only thinking of her in her absence; and, albeit his admiration for the Florentine masterpiece was probably based upon his discovery that it had been reproduced in her, the similarity enhanced her beauty also, and rendered her more precious in his sight.

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

It's darker than a black cat's ass in a coal mine, when you get back there.

I was told that since my photograph was as widely distributed as my publisher could make it, I would find it impossible to move about without being recognized. Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once.

the room leaped to darkness.

They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.