80 Quotes About Obscurity

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!

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!

Even if the whole world turns against you, until you agree, no failure, no crisis, no obscurity can win over you.

Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.

There is something worse than being ignored-not being ignored.

The closer one approaches absolute obscurity, the freer and happier one feels.

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.

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.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.