Obscurity Quotes

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.

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.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Obscurity is never a virtue.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.