Obscurity Quotes

The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light.

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

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

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

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.

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!

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

You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you will achieve global success!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.