Quotes about Obscurity

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

Dark with excessive bright.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

Let grief distract the sufferer's breast, And night obscure his way; They hasten him to endless rest, And everlasting day.

As Pascal observed, when God addresses our human hearts, there is always enough light for those who desire to see, yet enough obscurity for those who do not wish to see. What makes the difference is the heart.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

being famous is a thing that depends greatly on position and opportunity. It is not enough to possess gifts and powers: there must also be the means of exhibiting them. For want of opportunity some of the greatest men perhaps are buried in obscurity.