Obscurity Quotes

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

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 found beyond expression.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

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 biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

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, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

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 famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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 obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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 heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

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 from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.