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In this digital age you have to pay to play in the game to succeed if not you will stay in obscurity
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
— Alexander The Great
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
— James Kern Feibleman
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.
— Jean Ingelow
Deep to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.
— Alex Payne
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
— Julius Caesar
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
— David Budbill
Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.
— Kate Griffin
Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.
— Anthony Trollope
Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.
— Charlotte Bronte
Well, nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.
— Dan Simmons
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
— Robert De Niro
Big shots are only little shots that keep shooting. I can see your sun rise out of obscurity. Keep shooting
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
— Jean-Francois Millet
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
— William McFee
I'd rather live long in obscurity than die young with fame.
— Rick DeStefanis
How had so large a population of Americans disappeared into a largely unrecorded oblivion of poverty and obscurity?
— Douglas A. Blackmon
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
— Taylor Caldwell
Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)
— Plautus
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
— Albert Camus
She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.
— C.E. O'Grady
The obscurity of the night was in my favour. For
— Matthew Gregory Lewis
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.
— Ernie J Zelinski
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Who knows that he is profound strives for clearness; he who would like to appear profound to the multitude strives for obscurity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.
— Robert Mortimer
Obscurity is never a virtue.
— Roald Dahl
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.
— Erika M. Anderson
Obscurity is the realm of error.
— Luc De Clapiers
I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.
— Thomm Quackenbush
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.
— William Hazlitt
Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.
— William Finnegan
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
— John Locke
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.
— Dan Kennedy
Obscurity is a greater threat to authors than piracy
— Joanna Penn
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
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
— William Kingdon Clifford
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
— Seth Godin
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
— Walter Savage Landor
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
— Tim O'Reilly
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
— William P. Young
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
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
— Elena Ferrante
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
— Edward Gibbon
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
— Elvis Costello
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
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
— Oscar Wilde
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.
— Marc Maron
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in heaven.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
— Chandrashekar
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
— Tim O'Reilly
Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.
— Grant Cardone
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
— Michael Craig-Martin
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi,
— David Baldacci
Don't be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.
— Peter Webber
my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity
— Cory Doctorow
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
— Emily Bronte
She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.
— Jane Smiley
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.
— J.M. Coetzee
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
— Barack Obama
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
— Joseph Addison
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
— Aldous Huxley
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
— George Allen, Sr.
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
— Terry Pratchett
Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Call it wine, call it Quinn-sniff induced obscurity
— Penny Reid
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
— Jim Carrey
