All Quotes By Tag: Obscurity
“Even if the whole world turns against you, until you agree, no failure, no crisis, no obscurity can win over you.”
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“Twofold misjudgement. – The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.”
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“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You’ll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”
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“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”
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“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
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“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!”
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