Quotes of Obscurity - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ”

- Confucius

“ There is no darkness, but ignorance. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ”

- Bernard Levin

“ Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born:Relieve my languish, and restore the light,With dark forgetting of my care return. ”

- Samuel Daniel

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. ”

- Bible

“ Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Science has "explained" nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ To scatter Roman darkness by this light The loss of land and life I'll reckon slight. ”

- William Tyndale

“ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Obscurity brings safety. ”

- Aesop

“ Obscurity is the realm of error. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. ”

- George Allen

“ And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“ Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not. ”

- John

“ Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ”

- Bible

“ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I was the quintessence of sweetness and innocence as an Alice in Wonderland-ish little girl, so I guess no one ever expected such darkness from me. ”

- Kim Elizabeth

“ To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night. ”

- Yoda

“ Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit. ”

- Edward Young

“ The chemical and biological (weapons), there is no ambiguity. They are able to produce those weapons. ”

- Richard Butler

“ This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. - Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt
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