Quotes about obscurity

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, i

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Whic

Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

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

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

You can't reign in obscurity you can't shine in your comfort zone.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well!

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy.

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mold a pin or fabricate a nail!

Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.

O sun, heart of the heavens whose blood of lightInfuses the vigor which transmutes to azureThe black ice strangler of great space obscureI hate you, mask of gold, mist and fire, circularBlind monster blinding all the prey aroundYou who veil the impure dazzling phantasmTo the loving vertigo of my avid gazesThe visions of the colorless abyss of the voidReversed hollow truth-mask of the other world.

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.

Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential.