Obscurity Quotes - Page 2

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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.

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

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

Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.

Obscurity brings safety.

Obscurity often brings safety.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

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 want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Obscurity is the realm of error.