obscurity quotes

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

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

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

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.