obscuration Quotes

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.