97 Quotes About Anonymity

When you’re anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

A portrait that declines to name its subject becomes complicit, if inadvertendy in the cult of celebrity that has fueled an insatiable appetite for the opposite sort of photograph: to grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

The world forgetting by the world forgot.