Quotes About Obscurity

As a lover of the theater, Anna had been fascinated by what drove the human heart to self-destruct. That was over. Now all she cared about was that they be stopped.

You become like a ghost in your own life

Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées ; Le jour de la raison ne le saurait percer. Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. Selon que notre idée est plus ou moins obscure, L'expression la suit, ou moins nette, ou plus pure. Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

Il disparut à jamais, cet être sans défense à qui personne n'avait jamais témoigné d'affection, ni porté le moindre intérêt, non, personne, pas même l'un de ces naturalistes toujours prêts à épingler la plus banale des mouches pour l'examiner au microscope.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...

Being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.

Se llevaron el cadáver y le dieron sepultura. Y San Petersburgo se quedó sin Akaki Akákievich, como si nunca hubiera existido. Desapareció para siempre ese ser a quien nadie defendió, por quien nadie profesó afecto ni mostró el menor interés ; ni siquiera despertó la curiosidad de los naturalistas; siempre dispuestos a clavar un alfiler a una simple mosca para observarla a un microscopio.

One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.

She felt like a ghost lying under him, watching him work, as if he were making love to her shadow..

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

As Pascal observed, when God addresses our human hearts, there is always enough light for those who desire to see, yet enough obscurity for those who do not wish to see. What makes the difference is the heart.

The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.

Son seres que dejan pocas huellas tras de sí. Personas casi anónimas. Nunca se alejan de ciertas calles de París, de ciertos paisajes de suburbio donde descubrí, por casualidad que habían vivido. Lo que se sabe de ellas se resume en una simple dirección. Y esta precisión topográfica contrasta con todo lo que se igonrará para siempre de su vida... ese vacío, ese bloque de desconocimiento y silencio.

How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

Nunca mas invisible -Pero hay cosas peores que ser invisible

Des Menschen Duft an und für sich war ihm auch gleichgültich. Des Menschen Duft konnte er hinreichend gut mit Surrogaten imitieren. Was er begehrte, war der Duft gewisser Menschen: jener äußerst seltenen Menschen nämlich, die Liebe inspirieren. Diese waren seine Opfer.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

where there were angels I saw no one. nothing. not even space.

When words fail you, you dissolve into an image of nothingness. You disappear.

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Nous sommes les Ingénues, Aux bandeaux plats, à l'œil bleu, Qui vivons, presque inconnues, Dans les romans qu'on lit peu.

There's too much of him that favors the darkness.