Occultation Quotes

America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA. (Marshall McLuhan)
When the fifth from my offspring disappears, then, I adjure you by Allah to watch for your religion so that no one would take it away from you. Without doubt, there shall be an occultation for the holder of this matter, until such time that (most) people who believe in his Imāmat would leave their belief. Verily this (occultation) is but a test by Allah, the Glorious, for his creation. View quote
Musa al-Kadhim
The Pataphysique is not dead. It lives on in the minds of certain men, even if they are not aware of it. It has gone into "occultation,” as we say, and will come back again one day. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing. View quote
Mark Twain