| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. |
| 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 | How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. |
| 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. |
| Edmund Spenser | Yet was he but a squire of low degree. |
| Edward Chamberlayne | Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. |
| George Chapman | As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. |
| James K Feibleman | It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. |
| Marshall McLuhan | Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
| Ovidius Naso | He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. |
| Robert Browning | I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. |
| Thomas Gray | Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. |
| Thomas Hardy | Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. |
| John Milton | The palpable obscure. |
| Joseph Addison | Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. |
| Mark Twain | Obscurity and competence, That is the life that is worth living. |
| Samuel Johnson | Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. |
| William Wordsworth | She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. |
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