One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it… — Johnathan Jena Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.” — Erwin Raphael McManus Copy Share Image
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score… — Gopi Sundar Copy Share Image
“He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking,… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts;… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
