Obscurity Quotes

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.

For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Obscurity often brings safety.

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.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

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

Obscurity is the realm of error.