Top 306 Obscurity Quotes & Sayings

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

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

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

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s 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.

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

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

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

Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland, it won't be heard or acted upon. To avoid obscurity, you need to clash with your environment. Incorporating contrast into your presentation will help it stand out. You create contrast by using the presentation form. For example, you can state the problem, then the solution. State an opposing perspective, then your perspective. State the past, then your picture of the future. Adding the cadence of contrast will pull your idea out of obscurity.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

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

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

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

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

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

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

Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or position or degree we’ve always wanted, the notoriety we’ve always dreamed of—that’s when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

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

Obscurity brings safety.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

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

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

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

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

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

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

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

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

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

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

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

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.

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

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

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

Obscurity is the realm of error.

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

Obscurity often brings safety.

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