Obscurity Quotes

193 Obscurity quotes by 167 unique authors

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From… — Marcel Proust
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help… — Carl Sagan
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of… — David Hume
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like… — Alexandre Dumas
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and… — Charlotte Bronte
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even… — Robert A. Heinlein
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that… — Rabindranath Tagore
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list… — Gail Carriger
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

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