Obscurity Quotes

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!

~ Charlotte Brontë

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

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Emily Brontë

Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Dylan Thomas

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.

~ Samuel Johnson

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs.

~ Saul Bellow

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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, is shared.

~ Michael Chabon

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

~ Andrew Crumey

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are a lamp to give light to people, you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts, expose and share them freely!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Anthony Liccione

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger, it keeps you confined away from your real belongings!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you have, and what you have to know for the comfort, inspiration and enlightenment of others!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it, you can't share if you keep hiding!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may be great but unknown! Your influence can travel long distances if only you give them the chances to go where they are needed! Rebrand yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are like a city on the hill, you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence will be seen from afar!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is how would they get to know that you are proud if you had not talked about your dreams? How then should people get to know what you do if you take delight in hiding yourself?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I believe that if markets were hidden deep in obscured places, it would definitely be impossible for some people to get there to make transactions! If you secluded yourself out of sight, your dreams cannot go that far!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer. No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Plutarch

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

~ Jason Fried

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.

~ Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

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

~ Bauvard

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Nancy Pearcey

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.

~ Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

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.

~ Johnathan Jena

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.

~ W.h. Auden

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

~ C.e. O'grady

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.

~ Virginia Woolf

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

~ Neil Gaiman