Quotes About Anonymity

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

I think of the internet like my disguise. It's the only place where people don't treat me like I'm either a monster or a charity case to be pitied.

Wat is mijn kathedraal? Ik werk aan een kathedraal die ik niet ken en als hij voltooid is, zal ik er niet meer zijn en niemand zal weten dat ik eraan heb gewerkt.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

existe una violencia peor que el dolor de que no lo publiquen a uno: ¡que te publiquen y no salgas del más absoluto anonimato!

These days you can't do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.