obscured reality Quotes

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

Facts can obscure the truth.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

Something lurked inside the truth.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.