Social Obscurity Quotes

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

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

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?'

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.