Obscurity Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

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.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

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 the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.