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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.
Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.
So much is invisible.
Nobody is going to notice Billie. People like us are invisible.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.
The things that seem
to matter less,
are the ones
we put on show.
Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
To stand out is to be known for something outstanding
You're not as invisible as you think.
What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?
the obvious is invisible. On
So often we measure
by what is false.
We should measure
by what is barely legible
barely in our dailiness.
It is the invisible that doesn't lie
the invisible through which
we see ourselves finally
on a back street in the world.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
Wear yourself proudly.
I was working on the principle, you see, that the more obvious you are, the less obvious you are.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
About as noticeable as a hippo in a flower garden.
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
People usually wish that they had the superpower of being invisible but then I realized that the true superpower was to be noticed.
The essential is invisible to eyes
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
I prefer to remain anomalous.
We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
THE STRIKING CONTRAST
The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.
We notice what we choose to notice.
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
Nothing should go un-noticed.
Any effort ... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.
Be obscure clearly.
Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
People either see me or they don't.
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I
The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.
Special people make their presence felt by their absence..
And I feel faintly ordinary, faintly inconspicuous, faintly unsuspicious. And it's good, so good.
I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric.
All women dress to be noticed: gross and vulgar women to be grossly and vulgarly noticed, wise and modest women to be wisely and modestly noticed.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.
It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
It's amazing how clothing affects how people see - or don't see - you.
Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.
So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.
Visibility without Value is Vanity
Frightfully pale and perpetually odd
Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
I wear embarrassing like a velvet coat of awesomeness.
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.
If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though
and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.
I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.
Sometimes the plainest of things conceal the most unimaginable wonders,
The fine stitching and well-carded wool of his supposedly unobtrusive cloak making him stand out like blood on a wedding dress.
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
I don't want to be mysterious.
I am not showing off. I am just being expressive!
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
I glory in the emotionally commonplace
iconoclastically.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
Some things you just can't hide, no matter how thick the material.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
She made an appearance to offer me courage, and I worried about her appearance. Shame. Such a worrywart I am. I miss miracles blooming before my eyes: I concentrate on a fading star and miss the constellation. I overlook dazzling thunderstorms worrying whether I have laundry hanging.
You're kind of... distracting.
Am I?
Yes. In the best way.