Obscurity Quotes

193 Obscurity quotes by 167 unique authors

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. — Neil Gaiman
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .… — Unknown Author
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity? — David Budbill
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including… — Brenda Laurel
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled… — Scott Aukerman
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I… — Conan O'Brien
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to… — Tom Wolfe
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is… — John Clute
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose… — Hugh Miller
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the… — Benjamin F. Wade
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. — George Allen, Sr.
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your… — Meg Rosoff
I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up… — Samantha Power
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting — Edmund Burke
.....tell me your dreams What could they be? Whether nightmares or horrors or fantasies to see???? What are they made of? Do you think they… — Fatima Fatimzahra
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. — Unknown Author
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she… — Marie Corelli
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in… — Steven Soderbergh

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