Quotes About Obscurity

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

Not everything that is seen is visible.

Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror.

Over the years, I've noticed that most of my colleagues and friends have their own favorite but relatively obscure words that even they aren't familiar with. The

maar in die halfdonkerte daar sien sy niks anders as verwaarlosing nie.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows. Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about them. Keep tweaking. Work out the kinks. Test random ideas. Try new things. No one knows you, so it's no big deal if you mess up. Obscurity helps protect your ego and preserve your confidence.

No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows.

The ones who most shape the world are those who are not exposed, who can't be seen; unknown, opaque beings about whom almost no one knows anything. Like the hidden man in the story, except that instead of living a passive vegetable existence, they plot and weave webs in the shadows.

Basta con que alguien salga por una puerta y desaparezca para que su imagen empiece a difuminarse, basta con dejar de ver para ya no ver claro, o no ver nada; y con oír pasa lo mismo, y no digamos con el tacto.

Quienes actúan envueltos en niebla y de espaldas al resto, y no reclaman ni necesitan reconocimiento, esos son los que turban más el universo.

He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.

and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes

It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters… any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: 'Use unknown.

What was the use of being beautiful and attracting attention if one were perpetually doomed to relapse again into the obscure mass of the Uninvited?

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Their squalor, being indescribable, will not be described.

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple, and cast naked into the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity.