Obscurity Quotes
193 Obscurity quotes by 167 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
— Tim O'Reilly
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
— Neil Gaiman
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
— George Allen, Sr.
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Obscurity Quotes
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