Obscurity Quotes

193 quotes by 167 authors

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. — Aldous Huxley
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about… — Pierre Loti
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,… — Thomas Merton
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV… — Joe Rogan
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in… — Sonia Sotomayor
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a… — James Thurber
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole… — Jodi Picoult
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley
Obscurity and a competenceâ€”that is the life that is best worth living. — Mark Twain
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as… — Leo Tolstoy
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… — Virginia Woolf
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains… — Elizabeth Kostova
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in,… — Timothy Egan

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