80 Quotes About Obscurity

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!

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...

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.

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.

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!

Dans la clarté absolue, comme dans la parfaite obscurité, il n’y a ni laideur ni beauté.

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.

The obscurity of location impedes the recognition of a genius; he lives in a poor city and afflicted with the paucity of the basic amenities taken for granted in advanced societies. Even his beautiful hit on the seventh hole does not catch the public eye because his locality is abysmally derided.

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