Obscurity Quotes

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

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

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

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

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

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.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

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