Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen 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
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor 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
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
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
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
“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
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
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain… — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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