Anonymous Existence Quotes

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.

The chicest thing is when you don't exist on Google.

I didn't really know any Buddy Garritys, but I knew they were out there.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.