Top Obscurity Quotes
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Marie Corelli
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Hugh Miller
Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapier
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
Anna Comnena
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte 
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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt 
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford 
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Thomas Hardy 
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Taylor Caldwell 
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I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
Steven Soderbergh 
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Eric Clapton 
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
George Allen, Sr. 
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison 
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