Quotes About Anonymity

One of the most fundamental of human fears is that our existence will go unnoticed.

Everybody listens to Nobody!

That's why when Peter started talking to me in homeroom this morning, i soaked up his attention like a doughnut dipped in coffee. The fact that his comments have left me soggy and wilted doesn't matter. That's the price you pay when you withdraw to the safety of anonymity

Sometimes I wear a cap or keep my head down and walk fast, so that people don't recognize me.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

I don't know any celebrities. I know a lot of people that most people have never heard of.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

People sorta know my face, but I can still go out to the supermarket, and nobody pays much attention.

It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.

I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

One view is that privacy consists of 'limited accessibility' – a cluster of three related but independent components: secrecy: information known about an individual; anonymity: attention paid to an individual; and solitude: physical access to an individual.

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

From what I did and what I said Let them not seek to find who I was

Lost in the crowd, it's all right to pretend for a moment to be no one.

We weten niet wie de evangeliën geschreven hebben. Toen ze voor het eerst opdoken circuleerden ze anoniem, en ze werden pas later toegeschreven aan belangrijke figuren uit de jong christelijke kerken. De auteurs waren joodse christenen.

I miss anonymity. People have a right to disappear if they want to. It's a personal decision, isn't it? Everyone should have autonomy. We owe it to them as fellow human beings to support their decisions, even if we do not agree with them.

No man knows my history.