Quotes About Obscurity

There is nothing like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Margrethe slips into history even as I turn back to Bohr. And yet how much more difficult still it is to catch the slightest glimpse of what's behind one's eyes. Here I am at the centre of the universe, and yet all I can see are two smiles that don't belong to me.

It is better to exist unknown to the law.' 

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Estou manchado com esplendor corrupto, sou um código para segredos obscuros, sou um ser à parte, fui gerado na decadência, e vivo sobre a água. Sou o mais diferente possível de ti, e no entanto não sou propriamente um turco ou um peixe" Casanova

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch,

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing

Sumido en la niebla de su vida

The conventional explanation is that Raphael, Mendel, and Bach were always creative, only their reputation changed with the vagaries of social recognition. But the systems model recognizes the fact that creativity cannot be separated from its recognition. Mendel was not creative during his years of relative obscurity because his experimental findings were not that important until a group of British geneticists, at the end of the nineteenth century, recognized their implications for evolution.

I must confess I get lost with all these shades of grey.

Hansu was not an ordinary person, and he was capable of actions she could neither see nor understand.

try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

The shadow is only the daughter of the light.

There's a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I'm allowed to see mysteries hidden in daylight.

He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

Everyone is invisible to someone.

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.

Previously, it hqd brought her the names of famous men who had discovered things. She would bite her nails as she listened, telling herself that if she were a man she would be able to do likewise. Obscurity, she felt that these discoverers had no greater talent for discovery than she, only that they were men. Yes, a man could do things a woman could not simply because he was a man. He was not more able, but he was male, and masculinity in itself was one of the preconditions for discovery.