Top Obscurity Quotes

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.

Obscurity Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.

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

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can alwa...

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some bea...

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one...

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is...

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a cond...

I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem when it is there, that is the only thing worth doing. There is an ecstasy of — will-less i...

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.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

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

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To m...

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

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merci...