“One cannot see from the clouded sky, even the sky is close to the eyes.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ” — Dan Kennedy Copy Share Image
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it; you can't share if… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
“I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.” — Erwin Raphael McManus 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
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
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell 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
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
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
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
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
