Obscurity Quotes

193 quotes by 167 authors

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Obscurity brings safety. — Aesop
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
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
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. — Carrie Fisher
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working… — J D Salinger
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win… — George Allen
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world;… — Khalil Gibran
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and… — Cyrus the Great
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with… — Guo Xiang
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of… — Rachel Kushner
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Unknown Author
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things… — Jean-Georges Noverre
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great
Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,… — Joyce Carol Oates
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes… — Unknown Author

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