“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity. — Kevin Sparks Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into… — John Warwick Montgomery Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them in not particular, and planet is dissimilar… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that. — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
